Scottish Engagers
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The Scottish Engagers were a faction of Scottish Covenanters who, in the late 1640s, struck a controversial agreement with the captive Charles I to restore him to power in exchange for religious concessions, leading to their involvement in the Second English Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Scottish Engagers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20135387 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Scottish Engagers Context triple: [Royalist risings of 1648, hasParticipant, Scottish Engagers]
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Scottish Covenanters
The Scottish Covenanters were a 17th-century Presbyterian movement in Scotland that organized religious and political resistance to royal attempts to impose episcopal control over the Church of Scotland.
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Scottish militia
The Scottish militia was a part-time, locally raised military force in the Kingdom of Scotland, composed mainly of civilian soldiers mobilized for home defense and internal security.
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C.
The Scots
The Scots is a nickname for the Scots Guards, an elite infantry regiment of the British Army with a long and distinguished history of service.
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D.
Jacobite forces
Jacobite forces were the predominantly Highland Scottish supporters of the exiled Stuart dynasty who fought to restore it to the thrones of Britain and Ireland in a series of uprisings during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Scottish Covenanter army
The Scottish Covenanter army was the military force raised by Scottish Presbyterians in the 17th century to defend their religious and political covenants, notably fighting in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Scottish Engagers Target entity description: The Scottish Engagers were a faction of Scottish Covenanters who, in the late 1640s, struck a controversial agreement with the captive Charles I to restore him to power in exchange for religious concessions, leading to their involvement in the Second English Civil War.
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A.
Scottish Covenanters
The Scottish Covenanters were a 17th-century Presbyterian movement in Scotland that organized religious and political resistance to royal attempts to impose episcopal control over the Church of Scotland.
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B.
Scottish militia
The Scottish militia was a part-time, locally raised military force in the Kingdom of Scotland, composed mainly of civilian soldiers mobilized for home defense and internal security.
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C.
The Scots
The Scots is a nickname for the Scots Guards, an elite infantry regiment of the British Army with a long and distinguished history of service.
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D.
Jacobite forces
Jacobite forces were the predominantly Highland Scottish supporters of the exiled Stuart dynasty who fought to restore it to the thrones of Britain and Ireland in a series of uprisings during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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E.
Scottish Covenanter army
The Scottish Covenanter army was the military force raised by Scottish Presbyterians in the 17th century to defend their religious and political covenants, notably fighting in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
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