Whiggamore Raid

Whiggamore Raid
Part of the Scottish Civil War
Engraving of Edinburgh by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1670
Date September 1648 Location Edinburgh, Scotland Result Edinburgh taken by Kirk Party Committee of Estates relocates to Stirling Ensuing Battle of Stirling
Belligerents
Kirk Party	Committee of Estates Engagers
Commanders and leaders
The Earl of Eglinton The Earl of Leven	Earl of Loudoun (Lord Chancellor)

The Whiggamore Raid (or "March of the Whiggamores") was a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction of the Covenanters to take power from the Engagers whose army had recently been defeated by the English New Model Army at the Battle of Preston (1648).^[1]

Whiggamores (later shortened to Whigs)—a term most likely originating from the Scots for "mare drivers"^[2]—became a nickname for the Kirk party who were against the Engagement with King Charles I.^[1]