On April 5th, 1719, two Spanish ships sailed into Kintail.  One account says that three hundred troops landed along with the Earl of Seaforth and the Marquis of Tullibardine and encamped themselves by Eilean Donan and that they were joined by Rob Roy MacGregor and a small party of his Clansmen.  And another says that only forty eight men and two officers encamped at Eilean Donan.  Royal Navy warships sailed up Lochalsh and bombarded the castle.  It is said that the bombardment did little damage to the walls, but the Spaniards surrendered and were sent to Leith to be imprisoned.  The English blew the old castle up after the surrender of the garrison.  The 1719 Jacobite rising ended on June 10th at the Battle of Glen Shiel, only a few miles away and one month after the destruction of the castle.  Eilean Donan Castle was to remain a ruin for two hundred years
 
 

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