Did the jacobites fight against or for scotland?
Neither. They fought to restore the Catholic House of Stuart to the throne. They certainly did not fight for Scottish independence, as one answerer has suggested, for if they had been marching down England as far south as Derby might need a little more explanation. It was not, as another answerer suggested, Scotland against England either. Protestant versus Catholic, possibly, but not all the clans who supported the Stuart cause were Catholic. Nor were all those who fought for the Jacobites Scottish. There were large groups of volunteers from the north of England as well. There were many Scots in the British Army of the time as well, and the army which stood on Culloden against the Jacobites had several Scottish regiments in it. Recently found evidence has suggested that the battle was not as one sided as the conventional history would have it. Archaeological investigation found Jacobite weaponry behind the known Redcoat line, mixed with army weaponry, which strongly suggested that at
