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9 |
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November |
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1937 |
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Ramsay MacDonald died crossing the Atlantic on holiday on
the liner "REINA DEL PACIFICO".
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10 |
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November |
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1871 |
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Henry Morton Stanley found the missing Scottish missionary David
Livingstone.
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11 |
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November |
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1918 |
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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 UK's War Dead.
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12 |
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November |
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St Machar's Day.
St Machar's is Aberdeen's Cathedral.
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12 |
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November |
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1094 |
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Duncan II killed by the Mormaer of the Mearns at the
Battle of Monthechin.
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13 |
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November |
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1093 |
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Malcolm III (Canmore) was killed at the Battle of Alnwick,
aged about 62. His wife, Margaret, died on receiving the
news of his death, and was made a saint in 1249.
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13 |
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November |
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1715 |
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The Battle of Sherrifmuir. The Jacobites under the the
6th Earl of Mar "Bobbing John"
fought a ferocious but inconclusive battle with Hanoverian
forces under
John, 2nd Duke of Argyll.
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13 |
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November |
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1850 |
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Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh.
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14 |
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November |
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1715 |
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The Battle of Preston. The Jacobite Rising in the North of
England, where Scots had joined English Jacobites, were defeated
by Government Forces. This was the last Battle on English
soil, rather than Sedgemoor, and would be followed by the minor
engagement at Clifton in 1745.
The Battle of Preston 1715 - Old Maps of Lancashire
Battle of Preston (1715)
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14 |
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November |
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1770 |
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James Bruce, Scots Explorer discovered the source of
the Blue Nile.
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14 |
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November |
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1797 |
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Sir Charles Lyell, eminent Scots Geologist, was born at
Kinnordy House, near Kirriemuir.
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14 |
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November |
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1857 |
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The
93rd Highlanders later Sutherland Highlanders, Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders and now
Balaklava Company
5 SCOTS took part in the
Relief of Lucknow. The
sound of their pipes was the first signal to the besieged
British that help was at hand. 11
Victoria Crosses were awarded to Members of the 93rd, 78th
and 42nd Regiments during the campaign. |
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14 |
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November |
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1910 |
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Norman MacCaig, poet, born. He died on 23rd January
1966.
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14 |
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November |
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1916 |
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H H Munro, aka
Hector Hugh Munro "Saki" was killed in action
at Beaumont Hamel.
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15 |
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November |
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1746 |
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James Reid from Angus was hanged, drawn, and quartered at
York. He had served as a piper in the 1st Battalion, Lord
Ogilvy's (Forfarshire) Regiment, raised in October 1745 in
support of the Young Pretender, Prince Charles Edward Stewart.
He was among several men from this regiment left as part of the
garrison of the English border city of Carlisle when the
Jacobites abandoned their invasion of England, and was
captured when the city surrendered to government forces in
December 1745. At his treason trial it was put forward in
his defence that, as a musician, he did not carry arms and had
not struck a blow against the Government. However the court
ruled that "...a Highland regiment never marched without a
piper, and therefore his bagpipe, in the eyes of the law, was an
instrument of war.".
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16 |
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November |
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1093 |
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Queen Margaret, wife of Malcolm III died at Edinburgh Castle
on receiving the news of his death at the Battle of Alnwick.
She was made a saint in 1249. St Margaret's Chapel
is in Edinburgh Castle.
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17 |
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November |
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1292 |
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John Balliol was awarded the Scottish Crown. He swore fealty
to
Edward I and on 26 December paid homage to him at
Newcastle-upon-Tyne for the Kingdom of Scotland. When it became
clear Edward I regarded Scotland as a vassal state, the Scots
Nobles resisted and with Balliol agreed the "Auld Alliance" with
France. On 5 April 1296 he renounced his fealty to Edward
I, who marched north and defeated the Scots at the Battle of
Dunbar. Balliol surrendered to Edward I on 10 July and his
nickname "Toom Tabard" came from the removal of heraldic
insignia from his coat to mark his submission. He was
released in 1299 and retired to his French estate at Bailleul
where he died in 1313.
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