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).

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

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