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To: maceng2 who wrote (73953)	8/25/2010 5:30:44 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

Origin of the curious term "Whig"... Whiggamore Raid en.wikipedia.org The earls of Eglinton, Loudon, Leven and David Leslie, Lord Newark, placed themselves at the head of several thousand men on a march on Edinburgh to overthrow what was left of the Engager government. The country people on the march used the word 'whiggam' to urge on their horses, a term which was picked up and later used to describe this march as the Whiggamore Raid.[5] The Kirk Party (Whigs), with all their uncompromising purity, were set to enter the stage of Scottish and British history.