August 25 1330 James Douglas the Black or the Guid ‘Good Sir James’ died at Battle of Teba, Andaluci. James had Robert the Bruce’s heart in a casket,

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to be taken to Jerusalem, but James’ body and Bruce’s heart were returned to Scotland. Bruce’s heart was deposited at Melrose, Bruce’s body at Dunfermline. Anderson Scot’s History v. 2 / p. 51.

Robert Bruce memorial in Dunfermline Abbey.

Douglas and the Scots knights rode alongside the Castilians against the Moorish forces on the plain below the Castle of the Stars, at Teba. The Scots, including James Douglas, Simon Lockhart of Lee, William Keith, Robert Logan of Restalrig and Walter Logan, William Borthwick, Kenneth Moir, William St Clair of Rosslyn and John St Clair, charged into battle. The Moors feigned retreat and the Scots gave chase – leaving the Castilians behind.

  • When Douglas turned back he saw that Sir William St Clair was surrounded. Douglas charged to St Clair’s aid but found himself encircled. He took the silver casket containing Bruce’s heart from about his neck and threw it into the thick of the battle, shouting. ‘Now pass thou onward before us, as thou wast wont, and I will follow thee or die.’

Douglas and the Scots knights died at Teba. James’s body was found by the silver casket. Sath.org

Dunfermline is North of Edinburgh on Firth of Forth. In the upper middle of the map. Melrose is in the lower right corner of the Middle March on the River Tweed.

Tomb of Sir James, St Bride’s Kirk, Douglas.

VIEW OF MELROSE FROM A WATER-COLOUR SKETCH PAINTED BY JAMES ORROCK, R.I. The Border Country 1906

1517 Sometime in August.   Outbreak of plague in Edinburgh, James V of Scotland (age 5) was moved to the care of De la Bastie Antoine d’Arces nearby rural Craigmillar Castle. Wikipedia

1585 sometime in, pestilence. Worse. Sufficient people ignoring the rules so that the pestilence arrives and spreads. Most burghs tried to keep out strangers and travelers, and even local traders were not allowed to visit a plague area and return home. The town entrances would be guarded, and non-locals sent away; side roads into the town would be blocked with thorn fences to stop anyone trying to sneak in; and the council would institute inspections of any suspect illness. At the first sign of the symptoms of pestilence, it was either house arrest or the Foul Moor. PLAGUE! by Gordon Johnson, Wick, Caithness, Scotland.

‘Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of pestilence.’ Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

1642 Charles 1st left London, where the [TG41-375] power of the Parliament was predominant, assembled what friends he could gather at Nottingham, and hoisted the royal standard there, as the signal of civil war,

Charles 1st Stewart, King of Scots, England and Ireland, Portrait by Anthony van Dyck, 1636. Wikipedia.

1651 Battle of Wigan Lane (skirmish). Roundhead victory. Royalist defeat, commanded by James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby KG (31 January 1607 – 15 October 1651) was a supporter of the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Born at Knowsley, he is sometimes styled the Great Earl of Derby, eldest son of William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby and Lady Elizabeth de Vere. During his father’s life he was known as Lord Strange. Through his paternal grandmother, Lady Margaret Clifford, he descended from Henry VII of England. Wikipedia.

Portrait of James Stanley by Anthony van Dyck, circa 1631-1641

1679 William, Lord Cochrane (died 25.08.1679) married (1653) Catherine Kennedy (buried 15.02.1700, daughter of John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassillis) Wikipedia.

1689 History of the Scots Guards (1642–1804) the regiment saw action in the Low Countries the following year at the Battle of Walcourt.   Wikipedia.

1751 August 25, 2 pm. British Linen Company in Edinburgh, Scotland. Kidnapped ends. Catriona (David Balfour) begins. A novel written in 1893 by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to Kidnapped. It tells the further story of the central character David Balfour. Catriona MacGregor Drummond, the daughter of James MacGregor Drummond, known as James More. (using clans Drummond and Stewart). Wikipedia.

Western Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson Valilima House and Tomb. 1935. Western Samoa is in the South Pacific, and provided a home for Stevenson until his death. Previously the Navigator Islands, the name was changed in 1997 to Independent State of Samoa.

Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.

www.scotiana.com/scottish-author-robert-louis-stevenson-featured-on-samoa-postage-stamps/.

1752 Paper War of 1752–3. John Hill attacked both Henry Fielding and Smart, 13 August 1752, in the only issue of the The Impertinent. Hill’s The Inspector column of 25 August 1752 in the London Daily Advertiser, harshly criticized Smart’s Poems on Several Occasions. Fielding eventually left the dispute after the sixth issue of The Covent-Garden Journal was published. Wikipedia. Fielding was published by Andrew Millar 6th, (clan Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter) on the Strand.

1776 David Hume died, (7 May [O.S. 26 April] 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist. Hume was published by Andrew Millar 6th, (clan Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter) on the Strand.

1754 David Hume. Allen Ramsay 1713-1784 artist.

The History of Great Britain under the House of Stuart etc. London Printed for A. Millar on the Strand.

1819 Allan Pinkerton born. 1 July 1884 died. Outlaw Hunters  The Pinkerton Detective Agency chased down some of America’s most notorious criminals.   Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1819, Allan Pinkerton family was poor, after his father, a policeman, died in the line of duty. As a young man Pinkerton supported democratic reform in Great Britain (attempting to overturn the ‘rotten’ boroughs in Parliament) and was persecuted for his ‘radicalism.’ In 1842, politics forced Pinkerton and his wife, Joan, to immigrate to America. One day in 1847, Pinkerton ran out of barrel staves and went to look for more wood on an uninhabited island in a nearby river. There he discovered the remains of a campsite. It struck him as suspicious, so he returned at night to find a group of counterfeiters manufacturing coins. Not one to tolerate criminal behavior, Pinkerton fetched the sheriff, and the gang was arrested. At a time when rampant counterfeiting endangered businesses, He founded Pinkerton’s Detective Agency in 1850, setting up his first office in downtown Chicago. By 1866, the agency had branches in New York and Philadelphia.

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Counterfeiters are making American fake silver and fake gold coins in 2013 under the style of replica or copy.

1829 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, then delivered to the E. B. Grandin Printing company in Palmyra New York. The Scots Roman type is the font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The contract with E. B. Grandin’s print shop to print the book was signed on Tuesday 25 Aug 1829, and the completed book was on sale by Friday 26 March 1830. Typesetter John H. Gilbert selects type and inserts commas, periods, and other punctuation as Gilbert reads Oliver Cowdery’s hand written copy. One form signarture of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed per 6 day 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

Located in the business district of historic Palmyra, New York, the Book of Mormon Historic Publication Site.

1867 Michael Faraday, died, FRS (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist in electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. As a chemist, Faraday discovered benzene, investigated the clathrate hydrate of chlorine, invented the Bunsen burner and the system of oxidation numbers, and anode, cathode, electrode, and ion. Faraday was a devout Christian; his Sandemanian denomination was an offshoot of the Church of Scotland. In 1877 Seventeen Eminent Scots’ Spirits, including Faraday, appeared to and requested Baptism from Wilford Woodruff, President of the Saint George Temple, WASHINGTON, Utah 22-23 August 1877. Woodruff’s eminent men – Scots

1883 Andrew Hill Burt, Scot, served successfully as the first U.S. Marshall in Salt Lake City. The Deseret Evening News, “Horrible Tragedy,” (25 August 1883), 5, the editor notes that Andrew Hill Burt was killed August 25, 1883. CONVEYANCE & CONTRIBUTION: MORMON SCOTS GATHER TO AN AMERICAN ZION, History Scotland magazine – Vol.5.4 – July/August 2005

1930 Sean Connery was born in Edinburgh. http://www.scottishroots.com/index.php

Republic du Benin.

2012 Neil Armstrong (died 25 August 2012). “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” ‘The moonwalk marked America’s victory in the Cold War space race that began Oct. 4, 1957, with the launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, a 184-pound satellite that sent shock waves around the world. The accomplishment fulfilled a commitment President John F. Kennedy made for the nation to put a man on the moon before the end of 1960s.’ “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer,”

This July 20, 1969 file photo provided by NASA, shows Neil Armstrong.

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