Historical Military Reenactment On Visit To Falkland Palace Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer travel compilation video of Scots Brigade soldiers at a Historical Military Re-enactment, with some music, on ancestry visit to Falkland Palace, Fife. Falkland Palace is a royal palace of the Scottish Kings. In 1402 Robert, Duke of Albany imprisoned his nephew and rival David, Duke of Rothesay, the eldest son of King Robert, in the Well Tower at Falkland. The incarcerated Duke eventually died there from neglect and starvation. Mary Queen of Scots practised falconry here. The infantry arm of the Scots Brigade in Holland began, in about 1572 under Colonel Andrew Ormiston and Sir Henry Balfour, by the enlistment of separate companies, each complete under its own captain where they were committed, as part of the Army of the United Netherlands, at the Battle of Haarlem. It was the Scots, in January 1573, under the command of Balfour who cut their way over the frozen lake, with eighty sledges laden with munitions and food. It was John Cuningham, a Scotsman, that commanded the artillery of the garrison. It was Balfour who, on the 15th of April, with his Scots made a night attack on the Spanish lines at Russemburch, defeated a large body of troops, and carried back four standards. In 1586 the Scots companies, then about 10, were divided into two regiments under Colonels Henry Balfour and Patten, and by the time of the Spanish Armada, if not indeed before, the elder regiment seems to have had its complete regimental organisation. The second regiment was brought over complete by Walter Scott, 1st Lord Buccleuch in 1603. The third was formed on a readjustment in 1628, and although from 1655 to 1660 the three were again converted into two, and between 1665 and 1672 the third regiment became completely Hollandised, and its place was taken, in 1673, by a newly raised one, the two older regiments had an unbroken existence from 1588. From 1628 onwards there were substantially three permanent regiments in service, on special occasions the number was increased. Thus in the campaign against Don John of Austria, Stuarts regiment also served, and from the allusion to other colonels, it would seem that there were others in the pay of other provinces. In 1629 the Earl of Morton's regiment, commanded by Lord Hay of Kinfauns, served at the siege of Bois-le-Duc. In 1697-98 three additional Scottish regiments, Ferguson's, Lord Strathnaver, and Hamilton's, were temporarily employed, replacing the English Brigade, and again during the time of Marlborough three regiments (Lord Portmore's, Lord Strathnaver, and Hamilton's) were employed, and reduced after the Peace of Utrecht. Again a fourth regiment, commanded by Henry Douglas, Earl of Drumlanrig, was in service from 1747 to 1753. One of the first scenes for Outlander was filmed in the picturesque town of Falkland, which substituted for 1940s Inverness in the Highlands.

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