August 17 1424 Battle of Verneuil in Verneuil-sur-Avre, France.

The Battle of Verneuil, where Scottish Earl of Buchan was killed in 1424.

Buchan and his generals unwisely chose to face the English army in open battle, led by John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford. Duke of Bedford, Regent for Henry VI dines with(vs) Earl of Douglas. English archers rout French and Scots. Murdoch’s brother, John Stewart, Earl of Buchan and the Earl of Douglas (Tine-man, Lose-man) ,

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Home, Lindsay, Swinton slain. (TG 18-260) Verneuil was one of the bloodiest battles of the Hundred War, described by the English as a second Agincourt. Altogether some 6000 allied troops were killed, including 4000 Scots. The English lost 1600 men, an unusually high figure for them, far greater than their losses at Agincourt, indicating the ferocity of the fight. Late 18th century engraving of John Stewart, Earl of Buchan from a portrait in the Château de Chambord at Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France. Constable of France

1472 The see of St Andrews became an archbishopric by a bull of Pope Sixtius IV.  St. Andrews on the North east shore of Scotland.

1560 – The Reformation Parliament Reformed confession of faith was drafted by six ministers: John Winram, John Spottiswoode, John Willock, John Douglas, John Row, and John Knox, and read twice, article by article, before the Parliament; and the Protestant ministers stood ready to defend the cause of truth, in the event that any article of belief was assailed.

When the vote was taken, the Confession was ratified and adopted, and the church was organised along Presbyterian lines. Spottiswood. Crest: An eagle rising Proper looking at the sun in his splendour Or. Motto: PATIOR UT POTIAR [“I suffer that I may obtain”] Seat: Spottiswood, Gordon, Berwickshire Berwick is a border shire in the East March

1643 the Church of Scotland ratifies the Solemn League and Covenant Between the Scottish Covenanters and the leaders of the English Parliamentarians.

1648 – Battle of Preston (1648) for the battle of the Second English Civil War. Fighting until the 19th. Cromwell defeats Royalists and Scots commanded by the Duke of Hamilton, James Livingston 1st Earl of Callendar

James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar (c. 1590s – 1674)

General William Baillie was a Scottish professional soldier who commanded a regiment under Gustavus Adolphus in Sweden before returning to Scotland in 1639. John Middleton 1st Earl of Middleton (c. 1608 – 3 July 1674) was a Scottish army officer, who belonged to a Kincardineshire family

1689 Battle of Killiecrankie. General MacKay (King William’s troop) enters pass to Highlands. (TG56-379). Sir Evan Cameron of Lochiel, of whom Scott formerly gave ye some anecdotes, called on those around him to attend to this circumstance, saying, that in all his battles he observed victory had ever been on the side of those whose shout before joining seemed most sprightly and confident. (TG56-380) the blows struck by the Highlanders, which cleft heads down to the breast, cut steel headpieces asunder as nightcaps, and slashed through pikes like willows. (TG56-381) Viscount Dundee’s army wins, Dundee dies – shot in his arm pit. Won the battle and lost the war.

Killiecrankie is on the divide between the Highlands and lowland about 30 miles north and a wee bit east of Perth. Dundee is on the north shore of the Firth of Tay, East of Perth.

     In 1850 the Dundee Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ was organized, Dundee and Edinburgh conferences also had become part of the Glasgow Conference by the close of 1869.

1696 Paisley Witch Trials, begin. 13 years later The wife of Robert Miller of Glasgow and Paisley (from 1709) was Elizabeth, daughter of John Kelso, eldest son of Robert Kelso of Kelsoland. Of their fourteen children, the Fasti cite nine as alive around 1742: Andrew [6th], the London bookseller; John, who became 61 a minister; Henry, who likewise became a minister; Robert, who became a doctor and went abroad; William of Walkingshaw; Archibald, captain of HMS Lyon; James; Anna, who married Peter Scott, minister of the Laigh Church, Paisley;

Laigh West High Kirk.  and Elizabeth, who in 1761 married the James Hamilton who succeeded her father at the Abbey. (But as is shown later, the doctor’s name appears to have been William.) YYMA 59.

1786 Davy Crockett, (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836. frontiersman, U.S. Congressman and a defender of the Alamo. Scot.

1820 Daniel Mackintosh, born 1820 aug 17, Calvin, Perth, Scotland , d. 15 Sep 1860 Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, served as a personal secretary to Brigham Young. 72 CONVEYANCE & CONTRIBUTION: MORMON SCOTS GATHER TO AN AMERICAN ZION, History Scotland magazine – Vol.5.4 – July/August 2005

1835 Joseph Smith the Prophet (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots) gave a declaration. We believe that religion is instituted of God; and that men are amenable to him, and to him only, for the exercise of it, unless their religious opinions prompt them to infringe upon the rights and liberties of others; but we do not believe that human law has a right to interfere in prescribing rules of worship to bind the consciences of men, nor dictate forms for public or private devotion; that the civil magistrate should restrain crime, but never control conscience; should punish guilt, but never suppress the freedom of the soul. Doctrine and covenants 134

1876 The birth of James Drummond, Scottish statesman and diplomat and first Secretary-General of the League of Nations. http://www.scottishroots.com/index.php

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1942 World War II issue Into the Battle.

1992 August 17. A world map depicting the war’s theaters of operations and historical World War II events of 1942. Events along the top row of stamps on each sheet, from left, are B-25’s taking off to raid Tokyo, April 18, 1942; food and commodities rationed, 1942; United States wins Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942; Corregidor falls to Japanese, May 6, 1942; and, Japan invades Aleutian Islands, June 1942. Events along the bottom row are Allies decipher secret enemy codes, 1942; Yorktown lost, United States wins at Midway, 1942; millions of women join war effort, 1942; Marines land on Guadalcanal, August 7, 1942; and, Allies land in North Africa, November 1942.

1979 Jason Wesley Choate born (many great nephew of Buchan and Knox, descendant of Douglas, Miller, cousin of Bonnie Dundee).

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