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SAVE THE ARGYLLS - NO SOUND

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Scotch House, Knightsbridge. Duchess of Argyll arrives to collect signatures to save the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Duchess Presented with bouquet - Queen Mothers piper - Pipe Major Bob Hill plays. Duchess collecting signatures. People queueing. Y
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Culloden

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The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart fought loyalist troops commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland near Inverness in the Scottish Highland
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Die Orkney Inseln [zdf, HD, Doku, 2014. Deutsch]

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Orkney ist ein aus etwa 70 kleineren und der Hauptinsel Mainland (alter Name: Pomona) bestehender zu Schottland gehörender Archipel. Er liegt, durch den Pentland Firth getrennt, nördlich von Caithness in Sichtweite der schottischen Nordküste. _ Dies ist e
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Highlands - Episode 1

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John Michie begins his cross country journey at a reconstructed 17th century township in the Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore in the Cairngorms and visits Castle Urquhart on the banks of Scotland's most famous loch, Loch Ness, to discover what life was
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Ruins Of Buchanan Castle Clan Graham Ancestry Drymen Scotland

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Tour Scotland video of Buchanan Castle west of the village of Drymen. The house was built by the 4th Duke of Montrose in 1854. The original structure, the ancestral seat of the Clan Buchanan, had burned down in 1852, and Montrose commissioned William Burn
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Hilton Of Cadboll Pictish Stone Scotland

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Tour Scotland video of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Stone on visit to the National Museum in Edinburgh. This stone was discovered at Hilton of Cadboll, on the East coast of the Tarbat Peninsula in Easter Ross. It is one of the most magnificent of all Pic
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Battle of Arras Commemoration, Wallace Monument Poppy Cascade.

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The 100th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Arras. Poppyscotland and Legion Scotland marked the anniversary with a commemorative service at the Wallace Monument followed by a poppy cascade of 46,000 petals representing the number of Scottish casualt
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Castle Douglas Changes

by Admin Added 7 years ago 726 Views / 0 Likes

A small video I made showing the changes to Castle Douglas over the years.
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Loudoun Hill Memorial

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Loudoun Hill Memorial with the Society of William Wallace 2014.
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Alastair McDonald - Bannockburn (1314)

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Lyrics: High over Bannockburn, battle of no return Bruce ranked his Scottishmen all in good order Down on the other side - fifty divisions wide Edward had brought his men over the Armoured from head to fist, glimpsed through the morning mist Soldiers of R
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Lecture 2 Isle Of Lewis Chessmen

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Isle Of Lewis Chessmen Lecture
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Highland Clearances

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An animation project based on the Highland Clearances using British Pathe archive footage and traditional music recorded by the Edinburgh Youth Gaitherin. Made by a P6 class in 2008.
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