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SCOTLAND

AS A PROUD SCOT, AS MOST SCOTS ARE.

I THOUGHT I WOULD DEDICATE A LITTLE PART OF MY SITE TO
SCOTLAND'S HISTORY AND IDIOSINCRESIES.

I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT.

ALTHOUGH PART OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, SCOTLAND HAS ALWAYS
BEEN A FIERCLY INDEPENDANT NATION, AND HAS FOUGHT ALLCOMERS
THROUGHOUT THE AGES, FROM THE ROMANS AND THE VIKINGS, TO THE
AULD ENEMY

ENGLAND!

THIS PRIDE, COULD BE, IN PART, DUE TO SCOTLAND'S HISTORIC CLANS.
THIS OFTEN LED TO BATTLES AMID THE CLANS THEMSELVES, THE
MOST FAMOUS BEING THE SLAUGHTER OF THE McDONALDS BY THE
CAMPBELLS AT GLENCOE

(ALTHOUGH, THIS WAS INSTIGATED BY THE ENGLISH)

ALTHOUGH THE ROMANS CONQUERED ENGLAND, THEY NEVER TOOK
HOLD IN SCOTLAND AND EVEN BUILT " HADRIANS WALL" TO KEEP
OUT THE "PAINTED DEVILS".

THE VIKINGS ATTACKED SCOTLAND FREQUENTLY FROM THE EARLY
PART OF THE 7TH CENTURY ONWARDS, MAINLY THE MOST NORTHERLY
PARTS INCLUDING THE SHETLANDS AND THE HEBRIDES. THE ATTACKS
STOPPED AFTER THE BATTLE OF LARGS IN 1263 AND PEACE ENSUED.

THIS LEFT SCOTLAND FREE TO FACE THE ENGLISH!

 

 

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