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The Scottish history resources section includes biographies, timelines, acts of parliament, reports and letters, clans and families, regiments and battle maps, and more.
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Fraser’s Highlanders
Fraser's Highlanders is a name that refers to two different regiments of Scottish soldiers that were raised for service in North America during the...
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John Graham of Claverhouse
John Graham of Claverhouse, also known as Viscount Dundee or Bonnie Dundee, was a Scottish soldier and nobleman who lived in the 17th century....
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Alexander Gordon of Auchintoul
Alexander Gordon of Auchintoul (1669-1752) was a Scottish nobleman who had a remarkable career as a soldier and a politician. He served in the...
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Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton
The Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton was a peace treaty signed in 1328 between the Kingdoms of Scotland and England. It brought an end to the...
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First War of Scottish Independence
The First War of Scottish Independence was a pivotal event in the history of Scotland and England. It marked the beginning of a long...
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Major William Caulfeild: The unsung hero of the military roads
Major William Caulfeild was an officer in the British Army who is primarily known for his work supervising road and bridge construction in the...
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Eglinton Castle
Eglinton Castle was once the seat of the Earls of Eglinton, a powerful and influential family that played a significant role in Scottish politics...
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Disarming Act 1716
The Disarming Act was an 18th-century Act of Parliament of Great Britain that was enacted to curtail Jacobitism among Scottish clans in the Scottish...
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Protestant Religion and Presbyterian Church Act 1707
Our sovereign lady and the estates of parliament, considering that by the late act of parliament for a treaty with England for a union...
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Field Marshal George Wade
George Wade was born in 1673 in Killavalley, Westmeath, Ireland, and is best remembered as the father of the military road-building programme that he...
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Lord Lovat’s memorial to King George I
THE Highlands of Scotland, being a country very mountainous, and almost inaccessible to any but the inhabitants thereof, whose language and dress are entirely...
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Hugh Mackay of Scourie
Hugh Mackay of Scourie was born c.1640 and is best remembered for commanding Scottish government forces at the battle of Killiecrankie in 1689.