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ᴴᴰ The True Story: Robert the Bruce - Scotland's Hero

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In the struggle for independence over the English, Robert the Bruce was the strategic and passionate patriot King of Scotland that grabbed his axe and fought against the English for the freedom of Scotland. Behind him marched thousands of Scottish patriot
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Margaret Douglas Countess of Lennox 1515–1578

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Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (8 October 1515 – 7 March 1578) was the daughter of the Scottish queen dowager Margaret Tudor and her second husband Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. In her youth she was high in the favour of her uncle, Hen
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After Bannockburn - Battle Of Bannockburn 1314 Part 2 | Documentary

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Battle of Kings: Bannockburn: Trailer Subscribe to The History Channel Here- Watch the TV premiere of Battle of Kings: Bannockburn ... History documentary taken from the line of fire series. With expert analysis from Sandhurst Military Academys finest alo
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Wick, Caithness - The Battle Of The Orange - Ian Sutherland 1991

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In this audio extract, Ian Sutherland of Wick Heritage Society relates the story of the 'Battle of the Orange', or the 'Big War in Wick'. The extract is from Moray Firth Radio's 'Recollections' series, transmitted in 1991. www.ambaile.org.uk
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Clearances General.avi

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The Highland Clearances Many thousands of crofters, whose families had lived on the land for generations, were forcibly evicted, leaving empty glens and desolate villages. A storytelling from Elliot Rudie with Rosemary Mackintosh Strathnaver Museum The Hi
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Massacre Of Glencoe (Glencoe, House Of Macdonald Etc) From Scotdisc GRETNA To GLENCOE

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First recorded by Nigel Denver, later by Alastair McDonald, thereafter hotly pursued, it seems, by everyone else, Jim McLean`s song of the massacre of the Glencoe Macdonalds on the13th February 1692. A relatively small affair (by Scottish standards of mas
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Scotland Castles Documentary | Kincardine Castle History English Subtitles

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Great Estates of Scotland tells the stories of ambitious landowners who have acquired some of the most beautiful tracts of land in Scotland, areas ranging in size . Like us on Facebook ▻ Follow us on Twitter. Highclere Documentary | Mysteries of Highclere
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Forgotten Scottish Borders Castles

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A man dreams of forgotten Scottish Borders castles, in Selkirk and on the cliffs of Berwickshire ..... but are they real??
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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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