July 16 – 1212 William de Brus 3rd Lord of Annandale (died 16 July 1212 ) was the second but eldest surviving son of Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale. Wikipedia

1265 Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 7th Earl of Gloucester shared the Prince’s victory at Kenilworth. Wikipedia

1309 James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland, died. Guardian of Scotland during the First Interregnum. Wikipedia

1377 – Coronation of Richard II of England (age 10). In 1385, the king himself led a punitive expedition to the north, but the effort came to nothing, and the English army had to return without ever engaging the Scots in battle. In 1388 the north of England fell victim to a Scottish incursion. After Richard’s murder about February 1400, a man identified as Richard came into the hands of Regent Albany, lodged in Stirling Castle Scotland. Fourteenth-century manuscript showing Edward, the Black Prince kneeling before his father, Edward III. (Both descendants of Malcolm and Duncan King of Scots). Wikipedia.

 

1465 Battle of Montlhéry was fought between Louis XI, King of Frace, and the (rebel) League of the Public Weal on the 16th of July 1465 in proximity to Longpont-sur-Orge. Scottish Guards fell at the Battle of Montlhéry defending their auld ally King, Louis XI of France, who had 15,000 soldiers at his side, mainly cavalry. Louis was facing an enemy. Charles the Bold, commander of the duchy of Burgundy, who had 20,000 men and substantial artillery. La Bataille de Montlhery, 16 Juillet 1465.

1560 Seige of Leith, Edinburgh’s port. Alexander Lockhart’s death. So with death of Mary de Guise peace negotiations began and it was stipulated that the French army would leave Leith and be conveyed in English Ships back to France. At the same time the English started on their homeward march back to England. On the 16th July 1560, the French troops reduced now to 4000 troops marched out of Leith after sacking it and so twelve years of French involvement in Scotland came to an end. Defeat stares in the eyes of the French, this is the turning point in British history. Not only is it the end of the Auld Alliance with France and the completion of the Reformation in Scotland. It is the beginning of the United Kingdom.

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1689 Killiecrankie. A Year after James 7th Stewart King of Scots, the name sake of New York, and Duke of York, had fled. The outlaw Bonnie Dundee, (loyal adherent to James 7th). Viscount Dundee raised the Highlands, with an army of 2500 men, and 300 Irish blocked the celebrated pass at Killiecrankie, to battle with General Mackay. Diastrous victory is a day away

The Pass of Killiecrankie. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. Frontispiece.

1814 . Thomas Cochrane, Lord Cochrane constituents in the seat of Westminster, London re-elected him at the resulting by-election. Westminster (UK Parliament constituency) (section Lists of Members of Parliament) In 1812, Cochrane married Katherine Frances Corbet Barnes, a beautiful orphan, circa twenty years his junior. This was an elopement and a civil ceremony, due to the opposition of his wealthy uncle Basil Cochrane, who disinherited his nephew as a result. Katherine, whom Cochrane called ‘Kate’, ‘Kitty’ or ‘Mouse’ in letters to her, often accompanied her husband on his campaigns in South America and Greece. Cochrane and Katherine would remarry in the Anglican Church in 1818, and in the Church of Scotland in 1825. Also Westminster Bubble. Wikipedia

Thomas Cochrane, Lord Cochrane 10th Earl of Dundonald (after 1831)

1832 31 Shetland “sixerns” and a total of 105 crewmen were lost in a storm. ‘The Bad day’. www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/onthisday/july/16

1862 – American Civil War: David Glasgow Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank. Scots descent.

1903 – George Orwell, pen name and born Eric Arthur Blair, (clan Blair) British writer (d. 1950). Children’s author of Animal Farm.

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1907 Ruby Catherine Stevens in Brooklyn, New York on July 16, 1907, (died January 20, 1990) was the fifth and youngest child of Catherine Ann (née McPhee) and Byron E. Stevens. Her father was from Massachusetts and her mother from Nova Scotia, Canada. Ruby was of Scottish descent, from her father and mother. Wikipedia.  Barbara Stanwyck stage name for Ruby Stevens, (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress.

1940 Battle of Britain. Hitler gave the order on July 16 for the invasion, dubbed Operation Sea Lion, and Goering assured Hitler that the RAF (Royal Air Force) would be destroyed in time for Sea Lion to begin by the target date of Sept. 15. Goering set Aug. 13 as “Eagle Day,” on which the Luftwaffe would open the all-out assault to “wipe the British air force from the sky” and clear the way for Sea Lion. Ahead of Eagle Day, the Luftwaffe attacked RAF forward airfields and radar stations but the effort was largely wasted. They tried to bomb the radar towers, which were hard to hit and easy to replace, rather than the vulnerable radar site buildings where the trained operators were located. www.airforcemag.com

German Plan for Invasion of England, 6th 9th 16th army, 1st 2nd objective, English Channel.

The Army wanted to land on a 200 mile wide front stretching from Lyme Regis in the west to Ramsgate in the east, however the Navy was constantly worried about the threat from the Royal Navy insisted on a narrower landing. A compromise was arrived at where the landings would be from Brighton in the west to Folkestone in the east. The first wave of about 60,000 men was to secure the beaches while the second wave comprised of the tank divisions that were to break out of the beachheads and capture the secondary objectives. The landings were to be assisted by airborne troops landing on the Downs above Brighton and north-west of Folkestone to help with the capture of crossings over the Royal Military Canal.

1952 Gift Horse (US title Glory At Sea) (US release) is a 1952 British war film starring Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (Wallace clan),and Richard Attenborough. The film follows the story of the fictional ship HMS Ballantrae (novel Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson set in 1745 Jacobite Scotland) and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until they go on a one-way mission to destroy a German-held dry dock in France in Operation Boadicea, a suicide mission. The action portion is based on the HMS Campbeltown and the 1942 St. Nazaire Raid. The HMS Campbeltown was the USS Buchanan transferred in 1940 during the Lend Lease era. Fictional Lieutenant Commander Hugh Algernon Fraser

 

1969 Apollo 11 launch to the moon, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon.

The Saturn V carrying Apollo 11 slowly rises past the launch tower camera

Condensation cloud forms asp the Saturn V approaches Mach 1, one minute into the flight

1993 – Kim Campbell (Campbell clan ) is chosen as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and becomes the first female Prime Minister of Canada.

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2010 sometime this year. (Now Lieutenant) Colonel Mark Irvan Choate gave this Jeopardy-style Answer; ‘It’ll ALL work out in the end. if it hasn’t worked out, it’s just not the end.’ Take your pick for possible QUESTIONs – What does it mean the gospel is true?   Is my career on track?   Are you happy? Will Yale [or BYU or Oklahoma or Padua] ever have another football [or concert] championship? Will the manuscript be read, accepted, published? Will I fall in Love? (Mark’s clans include Armstrong, Arnot, Boyd, Cameron, Cheney, Cochrane, Colville, Crichton, Douglas, Drummond, Erskine, Fraser, Gordon, Graham, Haliburton, Hamilton, Hepburn, Hunter, Jardine, Keith, Kennedy, Leslie, Livingstone, Lockhart, Macpherson, Maxwell, Meldrum, Millar, Montgomery, Morton, Murray, Ralston, Ramsey, Ruthven, Semple, Seton, Sinclair, Somerville, Spreull, Stewart, Sutherland, Swinton, Turnbull, Wallace and Wynton). Maybe the quote will make it over door sill, like ‘What e’re thou art, act well thy part.’

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