Scotland's Story: A New PerspectiveCollins, 1984 - 358 pagini Fighting endless hardship, at war with the English for the greater part of their history and, in their diversity, often warring amongst themselves, the Scottish people have given the world an enormous wealth of creativity and inventive genius out of all proportion to their numbers. This reveals the Scots as they are, and how they have become so: one of the smallest but most influential countries in the world. |
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... Lord of the Isles was shrouded in Celtic mysticism , which made the task of controlling the isles more difficult for Lowland Scottish kings . On 24 July 1411 at Harlaw in Aberdeenshire , Donald , 2nd Lord of the Isles and his retainers ...
... Lord of the Isles was shrouded in Celtic mysticism , which made the task of controlling the isles more difficult for Lowland Scottish kings . On 24 July 1411 at Harlaw in Aberdeenshire , Donald , 2nd Lord of the Isles and his retainers ...
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... Lord Reay and taken prisoner . By 14 April , the young energetic Duke of Cumberland had made his way up the east coast and was camped with his army at Nairn on the Moray Firth . O'Sullivan had chosen Drummossie , a totally indefensible ...
... Lord Reay and taken prisoner . By 14 April , the young energetic Duke of Cumberland had made his way up the east coast and was camped with his army at Nairn on the Moray Firth . O'Sullivan had chosen Drummossie , a totally indefensible ...
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... Lord Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerino were publicly beheaded . Lord Cromartie , also sentenced to death , was spared the axe and imprisoned for life . Charles , Earl of Derwentwater , like his brother after the 1715 rising , was tried and ...
... Lord Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerino were publicly beheaded . Lord Cromartie , also sentenced to death , was spared the axe and imprisoned for life . Charles , Earl of Derwentwater , like his brother after the 1715 rising , was tried and ...
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Acknowledgements | 8 |
Few and Far Between | 15 |
The Auld Enemy | 30 |
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Minorities and Memories: Survivals and Extinctions in Scotland and Western ... Andrew Strathern,Pamela J. Stewart Vizualizare fragmente - 2001 |
Minorities and Memories: Survivals and Extinctions in Scotland and Western ... Andrew Strathern,Pamela J. Stewart Vizualizare fragmente - 2001 |