Brest, France, around the year 1708, prepares for the first Jacobite Rebellion.
Thirty ships with 6000+ French, Irish and some Scottish soldiers gather under the protective cover of the ramparts of Chateaux de Brest.
The ships were mostly privateers, but they were led by the french Admiral Gace in his flagship, the 78 gun, Mars.
King James VIII was on board the flagship, and on March 6th, 1708, the fleet sailed to land an invasion fleet at Burntisland, Fife.
The plan had been prepared by many spies for years, and it only took one young man (King James VIII) to set one foot on Scottish soil, and the Brittish crown was his.
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