Tour Scotland Video Of The Palace and Castle Stirling

Tour Scotland video of the Palace and Castle, Stirling, Scotland. King James V and his second wife Mary of Guise constructed the grand palace at Stirling Castle, which was designed to heighten royal mystique. The castle is one of the largest and most important Scottish castles. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Its strategic location, guarding what was, until the 1890s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth. Several Scottish Kings and Queens have been crowned at Stirling, including Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1542. There have been at least eight sieges of Stirling Castle, including several during the Wars of Scottish Independence, with the last being in 1746, when Bonnie Prince Charlie unsuccessfully tried to take the castle. Stirling Castle.

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Old Photograph Shuna Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Shuna Castle on the Island of Shuna, one of the Slate Islands lying east of Luing, on the west coast of Scotland. In 1815, James Yates, a Glasgow native living in Woodville in Devon, England, bought the island from Colonel McDonald of Lynedale. In 1829 Yates bequeathed the island in trust to the magistrates and council of Glasgow, with profits from the estate divide two fifths to the city, two fifths to Glasgow University and one fifth to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Shuna Castle was built in 1911 by adventurer and philanthropist George Alexander MacLean Buckleyas. It fell into disrepair in the 1980s when the cost of maintenance become too great.



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Old Photograph Cameron Highlanders Fort William Scotland

Old photograph of a Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders sports day by Fort William, Scotland. The regiment was raised as the 79th Regiment of Foot, Cameronian Volunteers, on 17 August 1793 at Fort William from among the members of the Clan Cameron by Sir Alan Cameron of Erracht. During the First World War The 1st Battalion landed at Le Havre as Army Troops for the 1st Division in August 1914 for service on the Western Front. The 2nd Battalion, which had been in India, landed at Le Havre as part of the 81st Brigade in the 27th Division in December 1914 for service on the Western Front and then moved to Salonika in December 1915. The 3rd Battalion was posted to Birr in Ireland in November 1917, The 5th Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 26th Brigade in the 9th Scottish Division in May 1915 for service on the Western Front. The 6th Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 45th Brigade in the 15th Division in July 1915 also for service on the Western Front. The 7th Battalion landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 44th Brigade in the 15th Division in July 1915 also for service on the Western Front. The Scottish Gaelic poet Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna served with the 7th Battalion at this time.



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Old Photograph Royal Scots Regiment Selkirk Scotland

Old photograph of First World War soldiers from the Royal Scots Regiment marching through Selkirk, Borders, Scotland. The Royal Scots, once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army, having been raised in 1633 during the reign of King Charles I of Scotland. The regiment existed continuously until 2006, when it amalgamated with the King's Own Scottish Borderers to become the Royal Scots Borderers, which merged with the Royal Highland Fusiliers, Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment, the Black Watch, the Highlanders, Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons, and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to form the Royal Regiment of Scotland.



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Old Photograph Cemetery Newburgh Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the cemetery in Newburgh, Fife, Scotland. Newburgh graveyard is located on the eastern edge of town, on the Newburgh to Cupar road. The cemetery is below Clatchard Hill where the fort of Clatchard Craig was located on the hill of the same name. A human presence on the hill site has been identified from the neolithic period onward and the fort itself was occupied from the sixth century AD until at least the eighth century.



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