August 21 1452 Sometime in August James Hamilton 1st Lord Hamilton (c. 1415–1479) following the King’s ravaging of Douglasdale and Hamilton’s lands in Clydesdale.

Hamilton lands along the River Clyde feeding into the Frith of Clyde.

Clydesdale.

A concord was reached between the King and the Douglas faction at Douglas Castle, in August 1452 that was to last until 1455.

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1534 to 1607 to 1641. Religious persecution laws adopted at various times in these years. The Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and Penal Laws of England, (with jurisdiction into Ireland, Scotland and British colonies of Africa, India, and Americas), enforced by execution and torture, fine and prison, confiscation and transport to the plantations (American colonies, if ye weren’t already here) were, according to Edmund Burke “a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.” Savage, John (1869). Fenian Heroes and Martyrs. Patrick Donahoe. pp. 16. Bans on Catholics, Dissenters from the Established Church, (Nonconformists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Quakers, Covenanters, Methodists, Congregationalists, Jews, Anglicans 1650-1661, Baptists, along with slaves, felons, imbeciles. and foreigners) Ban on Jews holding the ancient and important office of sheriff repealed by Sheriffs’ Declaration Bill on August 21, 1835, Wikipedia. Catholic and dissenters ban repealed circa 1829.

1689 – Battle of Dunkeld. Perth Colonel Alexander Cannon’s Jacobites surround Earl of Angus’s newly (TG57-386) raised regiment of Cameronians, under command of Lieutenant Colonel William Cleland. Outnumbered, Cameronians won.

The Battle of Dunkeld – 1689. With the Jacobite forces marching towards Edinburgh William Cleland leads a Covenanter army in a suicide mission to halt them. The two sides meet at Dunkeld. Video: The Sword and the Cross: Covenant or King.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/union_and_jacobites/the_battle_of_dunkeld/

Dunkeld on the River Tay in Perth.

A century and a half later Cleland Kinloch Simmons, (born June 8, 1815 Charleston South Carolina,) Lieutenant in the Regular Texas Cavalry, defends (and dies March 6,1836) at the Alamo, Texas Republic.

1745 Aug 21 At Kinlochiel.1 Here PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART learned that Sr John Cope was marching by Dalwhinny towards Fort Augustus. Switenham was dismissed on the 21st and joined Cope at Dalnacardoch on the 25th (G.C.T. 19). The Prince, hearing for the first time of the reward of £80,000 offered for his capture, prepared a counter proclamation 2 offering £80 for the capture of George n. (J.M.B.), afterwards altered to £80,000 (S.M. 1747, p. 626). Cope Marched to Amombrie [Amulree1 22nd; Taybridge [Aberfeldy) 23rd; Trinifuir, 24th; Dalnacardoch, 25th; Dalwhinny, 26th.

Fort Augustus in center of map.

1754 – Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833) born.

1754 William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (21 August 1754 – 15 November 1839) born was a Scottish engineer and long-term inventor.

Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham, England.

WILLIAM MURDOCH Lighting Pioneer (1754–1839)

Murdoch was the inventor of the oscillating steam engine, and gas lighting is attributed to him in the early 1790s, also the term “gasometer”. However, Archibald Cochrane, ninth Earl of Dundonald, had already in 1789 used gas for lighting his family estate. Murdoch also made innovations to the steam engine, including the sun and planet gear and D slide valve. He invented the steam gun and the pneumatic tube message system, and worked on one of the first British paddle steamers to cross the English Channel. Murdoch built a prototype steam locomotive in 1784 and made a number of discoveries in chemistry. William Murdoch was born in Lugar near Cumnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, the third of seven children and the first son to survive beyond infancy. A son of John Murdoch, a former Hanoverian artillery gunner and a Millwright and tenant of Bello Mill on the estate of James Boswell in Auchinleck, Wikipedia

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Drawing of William Murdoch’s first Steam Carriage Model.

1754 Inventor of coal gas lighting, the principal form of illumination for a century, William Murdock was born. http://www.scottishroots.com/index.php

1765 – William IV King of the United Kingdom (d. 1837) born. Wikipedia.

1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War. 71st Foot, the Highland Light Infantry and now the Royal Highland Fusiliers. 91st Foot, now the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Wikipedia.

The Battle of Vimeiro : View from the river over the town to the hill beyond. www.britishbattles.com/ peninsula/peninsula-vimiero.htm

Highland regiments wore the kilt with red tunics and tall black ostrich feather caps.

Piper George Clark of the 71st Highlanders, although wounded continues to play.

Highlanders and Rifle Brigade at the Battle of Vimeiro. The 71st Highlanders and 82nd Foot were left to guard the guns. These two regiments were surprised by Brenier, as he finally developed his assault on the mountain, and driven off the guns. Rallying, the regiments returned to the attack, recaptured the guns and inflicted heavy casualties on Brenier’s brigade. Brenier was wounded and captured. Ferguson’s brigade was well on the way to capturing numbers of the defeated French troops when the brigade commander received an order not to continue with the pursuit.

1830 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Harmony, Pennsylvania,. (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 27. Some days in August. Take upon ye my whole darmor, that ye may be able to withstand the evil day. Inverness reaches from the North Sea on the East to the Minch and Atlantic in the West. One of only 3 shires to so do.

1863 John Forbes-Sempill 18th Lord Sempill (21 August 1863 – 28 February 1934) was a Scottish peer, the 18th Lord Sempill and 9th Baronet of Craigievar.   He was the son of William Forbes-Sempill, 17th Lord Sempill, and Frances Emily Abercromby, the daughter of Sir Robert Abercromby, 5th Baronet .

1869 – William Henry Ogilvie, Scottish/Australian poet (d. 1963) born.

1894 Future winner of the 1905 The John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium, John Moses Browning (January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926), received patent. Browning was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (clans Hamilton –Avondale, Lanarkshie, Scotland, Allison, Ellyson – Windyedge, Lanark)

The druggist John Scott of Edinburgh organized a $4,000 fund in 1816 for The John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium, to be presented to an inventor whose inventions improved the “comfort, welfare, and happiness of human kind” in a significant way. The Franklin Institute and the City Council of Philadelphia

The Patent U.S. Patent 524,702 Winchester 1894 lever action rifle.

Winchester Model 1894

1899 Strathmore mansion, north Bethesda Maryland, created by Captain James Frederick Oyster. Oyster transferred to an architect Clark, who transferred it to Corby, a baker, and then, on July 23, 1943 two parcels of the original Corby estate, including the mansion, were conveyed to St. Mary’s Academy, who developed the Corby mansion as a convent. In April 1977, the Sisters sold the mansion and remaining 30 acres to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The property was named Strathmore Hall in 1979.   Thus began a 25 year tradition of the Strathmore hosting more than 5,000 artists and hundreds of thousands of guests. The Music Cenetr has a 1,976 seat concert hall. Also there is the Strathmore Tea Room, the Shop at Strathmore, and Gudelsky Gallery Suite for Strathmore Fine Art.

      Strathmore is a valley near Forfar, county town of Angus Scotland, and is the home of Glamis castle, prominent in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Glamis Castle was begun in the eleventh century. It is the childhood home of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who became the Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom and later the much-beloved Queen Mother of the present monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth 2nd’s younger sister, Princess Margaret, was born at Glamis Castle. www.destination360.com/ europe/uk/glamis-castle

Forfar on the North Sea.

1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.

1927 – Thomas S. Monson, born, (scots ancestry) becomes 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1942 – World War II: the Guadalcanal campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.

1944 – World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, France.

1959 Hawaii statehood, Scots place names with hotels. Trump.

2015 Daily Mail. The day Charles joined the sporran legion: Striking never-before published image shows future King in full regimental dress.

  • Prince Charles was taken in 2012 for the Canadian army -The Rake
  • Wears dress of Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother’s Own) which Prince of Wales is Colonel-in-Chief
  • The prince’s uniform as ‘magnificent and substantial’ and a ‘style icon’
  • The Queen Mother was Colonel-in-Chief for more than 60 years until her death in 2002 and Charles took over in 2005

Insignia – Badge of the Toronto ScottishRegiment which includes elements of both its Scottish and French-Canadian Heritage – a Wreath of Thistles, the Cross of St Andrew, a maple leaf and a unicorn’s head. – Collar Thistle emblem denoting the regiment’s Scottish links. Officer’s epaulettes Honour Order of the Garter. Medals left to right Queen’s service Order (New Zealand) 1983 Coronation Medal 1953 Silver Jubilee Medal 1977 Golden Jublilee Medal 2002 Diameond Jubiless Medal 2012 Canadian Forces Decoration 2x2nd Award Bar 1991, The New Zealand Commemorative Medal 1990, The New Zealand Armed Forces Award 2012, Braid Aiguillettes, ropes showing he’s a Personal Aide-de-Camp to the Queen – Green Sash Part of the Order of the Thistle Scotland’s oldest order of chivalry –Belt and Sword Leather belt, sporting regimental badge, called a baldric. His dress sword hangs from it. Dirk ornamental dagger with a large cabochon in the hilt. Crimseon Sash denotes theToronto Scottish Regiment’s Lowland links. Kilt Pin worn to weigh down a Scotsman’s kilt. Sporran made of horse hair. Only officers may wear one.

The Rake the modern voice of classic elegance. His Royal huighness Prince Chraes The Great Protector. International Edition.

 

 

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