Scottish Jacobite Army

Scottish Jacobite army begins retreat, resorting to scorched earth tactics to delay advancing Anglo Dutch force. The King had come too late. If James had arrived three months earlier at the beginning of the campaign, the result may have been different.

More Events from January 29

• January 29, 1768
  Oliver Goldsmith's The Good-Natured Boy is first performed at London's Covent Garden
• January 29, 1794
  Archibald Hamilton Rowan, United Irishman, tried on charge of distributing seditious paper
• January 29, 1840
  John Miller Nicholson, Manx artist and photographer, born
• January 29, 1848
  Greenwich Mean Time adopted by Scotland.
• January 29, 1928
  Earl Haig, Commander in Chief of British forces 1915-18, founder of the British Legion, died.
• January 29, 1967
  The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) is formed