Old Photograph Battle of Largs Memorial Scotland

Old photograph of the Battle of Largs Memorial, Ayrshire, Scotland. The Battle of Largs was an engagement fought between the armies of Norway and Scotland near the present day town of Largs in North Ayrshire on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland on 2nd of October 1263. It was the most important military engagement of the Scottish-Norwegian War. The Norwegian forces were led by king Håkon Håkonsson and the Scottish forces by king Alexander III. The result was inconclusive, but in the long term favoured the Scots.

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