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The Legend
of Gathelus, Scota and the Stone of Destiny
The Story of the Saltire c 832 AD
How the
Thistle became the emblem of Scotland c 1263
The
Auld Alliance/La Vieille Alliance 1295
 The
Battle of Roslin 24th February 1303
The Execution of Sir William
Wallace at Smithfield, London 1305
The Battle of Bannockburn, 1314
The Declaration of Arbroath 6th April 1320
The Battle of Flodden, 9th September 1513
The Flower of Scotland fell at Flodden Field,
near Branxton, in Northumberland. The Scots lost 10,000 men,
including their King.
Regimental
Day 28th March 1633 - Royal Warrant Issued by Charles I to raise
The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
The Raising of The Kings Own Scottish
Borderers, 18th March 1689
The Battle of Killiecrankie, 27th
July 1689
The Battle of
Culloden 16th April 1746. The last
battle on the UK mainland, with Scots on both sides
 Robert
Burns, Scotland's Bard. The Immortal Memory
25th January 1759 -
21st July 1796
The Scots at Trafalgar, 21st
October 1805
200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar 2005
22nd May 2005,
90th Anniversary of
The Royal Scots Gretna Rail Disaster, 1915.
214 members of the 7th Battalion, The Royal Scots were killed en
route to Gallipoli when their train crashed into carriages of a
local train, and then the northbound express collided with the
wreckage at
Quintinshill.
11th
November 1918
Armistice Day,
marking the end of hostilities in World War I. The guns were
silenced, finally , on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th
month. Scotland accounted for 10% of the United Kingdom's
population, but
147,609 Scots were killed during the war, a fifth of the
Country's War Dead.
The Royal Scots (The
Royal Regiment) defence of the Dunkirk Perimeter, 25th May
1940, remembered by the
late Major Jimmy Howe MBE
"The Heroes of St Valery" - 51st Highland Division at
St Valéry-en-Caux. Outnumbered and out of
ammunition and supplies, surrendered finally 12th June 1940, a
week after the Dunkirk evacuation ended
Campaign
for the "Real" Reel of the 51st
Hogmanay the
origins of the Scots tradition
"Wha's
like us?""Wha's
like us?"
A humorous look at the Scots contribution to the world.
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