Tour Scotland Photograph Marquis of Montrose Tomb St Giles Cathedral Royal Mile Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of the Marquis of Montrose Tomb in St Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. The tomb of James Graham, the Marquis of Montrose. James was a Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier, who initially joined the Covenanters in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but subsequently supported King Charles I as the English Civil War developed. From 1644 to 1646, and again in 1650, he fought a civil war in Scotland on behalf of the King and is generally referred to in Scotland as simply "the Great Montrose ".



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