July 2 – 520 circa Old Kilpatrick John Bruce in his History of the Parish of West or Old Kilpatrick states “It was during these struggles that the great Cymric hero, Arthur the Faultless, King of the Poets, first saw the light. Gildas in the 6^th Century, and Nennius in the 7^th , relate the real Arthur’s history; while Merlin, the poet of Tweedsdale, and Llywarch Hen and Taliesin, both poets of Lennox, sing his praises. It has been thought that one of the battles of Arthur was fought in the neighbourhood of Duntocher, certainly in the neighbouring parish of Strathblane, where ‘Arthur’s stone’ bears witness to one of his victories. http://www.templum.freeserve.co.uk/history/strathclyde/arthur.htm

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1266 Treaty of Perth, Norway renounces claim on the Hebrides.

Staffa Netherland Central Railway 4 Scotland. Staffa from the Old Norse for stave or pillar island, is an island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The Vikings gave it this name as its columnar basalt reminded them of their houses, which were built from vertically placed tree-logs. Wikipedia.

1536 New heir presumptive begins for 2^nd Earl of Arran age 20. James Hamilton, 1^st Earl of Arran (1475–1529), married firstly in 1490 Elizabeth Home by whom he had two daughters; Arran divorced Elizabeth in 1504. He married secondly in 1516, Janet Bethune, daughter of Sir David Bethune, 1^st of Creich and Janet Duddlingston. by whom he had three children including his heir, James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault, 2^nd Earl of Arran (c.1516- 22 January 1575), heir presumptive to the Kingdom of Scotland (2 July 1536 – 22 May 1540), (April 1541- 8 December 1542), (14 December 1542 – 19 June 1566), (29 July 1567 – 22 January 1575); Regent of Scotland (1542–1554)) .

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• Map showing location of the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde with Brodick, opposite Ayrshire in the North Sea.

1600 July 2, 3, and 4, 1600, James Boswell, fiar or younger of Auchinleck, and several other persons, were indicted for abiding from the Raid of Dumfries, ordained to have convened with Archibald, earl of Angus, in the previous September. A variety of procedure took place in this and other similar cases, when some of the parties were fined, others discharged, &c.

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1644 Battle of Marston Moor The Solemn League and Covenant sent army under the command of Alexander Lesley, Earl of (TG 42-382) Leven, with victory of Parliament over Charles 1^st.

1645 Alford battle. Montrose one of Charles’ (later styled the 1^st) General and royalist, received 1,100 Irish, joined with 1,300 Highlanders, attacked Lord Elcho (Covenanters) at Tippermuir near Perth (September 1, 1644).   Montrose marched north to rouse Marquis of Huntly and the clan Gordons (Roman Catholics) and at Aberdeen, Monrose (Royalist) attacked and defeated Lord Burley (Covenanters). Montrose was trapped. Argyle (clan Campbell and Presbyterian) was behind Montrose, and the militia in the northern counties of Moray, Ross and Caithness, with 5,000 men stood in Montrose front. Montrose escaped thru impassable routes. By winter of 1645, Montrose passed the snow and attacked Argyle’s country. Montrose retired with the plunder. Argyle (Presbyterian) gathered 3,000 men, and followed to Inverlochy.   The Earl of Seaforth, with 5,000 troops from the garrison of Inverness pressed Montrose (royalists) on the other side. [included clan Mack of Inverness]. Montrose marched to Inverlochy to attack the Covenanters (Argyle and the clan Campbell).   Argyle was defeated. After this victory , Montrose (royalist) was joined by Highlanders. Which leads to the council at Edinburgh sent for officer Baillie, in England, who joined command with Urrey, to lead the army. Montrose, with 800 Highlanders, attacked Dundee and plundered it. Baillie and Urrey’s army attacked Montrose, who skillfully ordered and marched 60 miles back into the mountains. Urrey (Covenanters) was defeated at Auldearn Inverness. Baillie (Covenanters) was defeated at Aldord July 2, 1645. Tytler’s Britannica 197.

Topographical Map of Scotland between circa 1641 and later, showing Tippermuir west of Perth and the Firth of Tay, and River Tay. Dundee, plundered as described, is on the north shore of the Firth of Tay.

1645 Sir Walter Scott described the Battle of Alford (Tg43-11) as Montrose (royalist) wins again. The Gordons dispersed the Covenanting horse, on the first shock; and the musketeers, throwing down their muskets, and mingling in the tumult with their swords drawn, prevented the scattered cavalry from rallying.

1746 July 2. The Prince fearing that Raasa was too small an island for concealment, left Raasa in the evening by a boat, attended by John MacLeod, Murdoch MacLeod his brother, Malcolm MacLeod, and two boatmen, and returned to Skye, landing at night at Nicolson’s Rock, near Scorobreck, and spent the night in a cow-byre5 (r. 133). Publications OF THE SCOTISH HISTORY SOCIETY VOLUME XXIII, Pg 69 (54) April 1897 SUPPLEMENT LYON IN MOURNING PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART ITINERARY AND MAP. Ed.W. B. BLAIKIE, from Narrative of Lord MacLeod, son of the Earl of Cromarty.

Lewis, Orkneys, Skye

1747 Battle of Lauffeldt, Netherlands. War of the Austrian Succession or King George’s War. British Regiments: Lauffeldt is not a battle honour for British Regiments. Royal Scots Greys (2^nd ), Campbell’s Royal Scots Fusiliers (21st),

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Sempill’s (25^th ). The Scots Greys lost 160 men. “Grenadier of the Royal Scots Fusiliers”

The Battle of Laufeldt. The 1747 campaign ended with the French capturing more cities and towns and in 1748 the War was brought to a close by the Treaty of Aix La Chapelle. The French abandoned their conquests in the low countries in exchange for the return of Louisburg in Nova Scotia, captured by New England colonial troops. http://www.britishbattles.com/battle_of_lauffeldt.htm

American military cemetery at Henri-Chapelle, Belgium, 7992 souls (40% with Scots ancestry.) http://blackquillandink.com/?p=15894

• Throwing away the victory of Louisburg (wherein Massachusetts Choates fought) will be remembered a decade later when Massachusetts and Connecticut troops are again sent to retake the Fort guarding the mouth of the Saint Lawrence river. The river’s strategic location was known to the French and colonials, as it will be the entry into the Great Lakes until the opening of the Erie canal in 1820.

1755 Battle of Monongahela River 1755 – Braddock’s Defeat, Fort Duquesne, western Pennsylvania Colony. The French and Indian War also known as the Seven Year War (1757 to 1762). Jacob’s Cabin. The army was very short of supplies; heavy rain had destroyed much of the flour.

1757 2^nd Prime Ministry of Great Britain of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1^st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, etc. and beginning of Seven Years War. An impartial hand published on the contest, bookseller Andrew Millar 6^th (clan Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter).The contest in America between Great Britain and France 
with its consequences and importance : giving an account of the views and designs of the French, with the interests of Great Britain, and the situation of the British and French colonies, in all parts of America : in which a proper barrier between the two nations in North America is pointed out, with a method to prosecute the war, so as to obtain that necessary security for our colonies 
by an impartial hand. Etc London Printed for A. Millar in the Strand, MDCCLVii.

1776 Lee’s resolution of independence passed, Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

1869 postal issue of Declaration of Independence. A third of the Continental Congress were either Scots by birth or of Scottish descent. And all appeared (as spirits) to Wilford Wooruff in 1877 at the St. George temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

1778 London. Petition to parliament to repeal The Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and Penal Laws of Roman Catholics with 120,000 signatures. Lord George Gordon became head of the Protestant association to retain penal statutes. Tytler’s Britannica 251.

1790 circa sometime in the year. Emma Lady Hamilton, (clan Lyon)

Lady Hamilton as Ariadne by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1790

1828 Joseph Smith the Prophet at Harmony, Pennsylvania. (Clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 11. Given Sometime in May. ‘But as you cannot always judge the righteous, or as you cannot always tell the wicked from the righteous, therefore I say unto you, hold you peace until I shall see fit to make all things known unto the world concerning the matter.’ This promise was to await until July 2, 1834 when, in Liberty Missouri, Joseph Smith told the brethren of Zion’s Camp that they could avoid a second plague of cholera by humbling themselves and covenanting to obey the Lord’s commandments. josephsmith.byu.edu

1843 Nauvoo, Illinois. After a hearing on the return of habeas corpus pertaining to Joseph Smith’s [clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness] arrest, the Nauvoo Municipal Court ordered Joseph to be discharged “for want of substance in the warrant . . . as well as upon the merits of the case.” Counsel for Smith included Judge James Harvey Ralston, [clan Ralston], later Colonel in the Mexican War, and Quarter master at San Antonio Texas, restoring the Alamo, and saving the shrine from futher destruction. Josephsmith.byu.edu

1863 ‘Gettysburg’ – No Pennsylvania, no battle, no civil War.

1864 sometime. One Scottish child who traveled with her family to Utah in 1864 later explained, “My parents were very devoted to their religion. .

. . However, as much as they loved their native country they were very anxious to emigrate to Zion, although it meant the leaving of relatives, life-long friends and a home of comparative ease and comfort in exchange for the privations and sacrifices of pioneer life.” Evidence suggests that most Scottish-Mormon converts viewed the economic opportunities of America more favorable that those of their homeland. HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE. Scotland’s economy set a low bar to overcome.

1903 Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, (Prime Minister) 14^th Earl of Home born 2 Jul 1903, London, died 9 Oct 1995, The Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland. Great Great grandfather is Alexander Home, 10th Earl of Home born 11 Nov 1769, The Hirsel died 20 Oct 1841, The Hirsel, married 9 Nov 1798, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland on the River Esk. The 10^th Earl’s wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Scott, 3^rd Duke of Buccleuch. born 10 Oct 1770, London, d 29 Jun 1837, The Hirsel. GGGF Henry James Scott-Montagu, 2^nd Baron Montagu of Boughton, Will pr Nov 1845 born 16 Dec 1776, London. d 30 Oct 1845, Piccadilly, Middlesex, mararied 22 Nov 1804, Dalkeith House

19 Jane Margaret, daughter of Archibald James Edward Douglas, formerly Stewart, 1^st Baron Douglas of Douglas. born 21 Dec 1779. died 8 Jan 1859, Ditton Park. GGF James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, born 21 Jan 1811, Mayfair, died 31 Oct 1885, Newtown Stewart, co. Tyrone. married 25 Oct 1832, Fochabers, Banffshire. http://www.edwardjdavies.info/PMs/douglas-home.htm

1940. North Atlantic. ‘Their Finest Hour, The Fall of France, Back to France.’ Generations of Government gun control and gun bans had disarmed the homefronts of Poles, and disarmed the homefronts of neutral Belgians and Dutch, and disarmed the homefronts of French, Scots, and English. Relying, as their governments promised and they falsely supposed on their police and armies. Churchill (clan Montgomery) wrote –

• They never had need to repent of it. we ferried these precious weapons safely across the Atlantic during July, and they formed not only a material gain, but an important factor in all calculations made by friend or foe about invasion.

600 Freight cars loaded with American guns, field guns, machine guns, ammo, shells, cartridges, are on a dozen British merchant Marine ships crossing the Atlantic, zigzagging to avoid Nazi submarines.

Americans, under the Second Amendment,

1957 An Affair t o Remember is a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, and directed by Leo McCarey. Screenplay as the original film, which was penned by Delmer Daves and Donald Ogden Stewart. All good Scots names. The heroine is Terry McKay.

Terry McKay’s songs were performed by Margaret Nixon McEathron, born in Altadena, California, to Charles Nixon and Margaret Elsa (née Wittke) McEathron, stage name of Marni Nixon.

Romantic film. Deborah Jane Kerr CBE Commander of the British Empire (born Deborah Jane Trimmer, 30 September 1921 Glasgow – 16 October 2007) was a Scottish film and television actress. “Kerr rhymes with Star!”

1972 Joseph Fielding Smith 19 July 1876- 2 July 1972, lyrics, Hymn, Does the Journey Seem Long? 127, Joseph is a descendant of John Mack of Inverness 17^th century, and Malcolm Canmore King of Scots 11^th century.

10^th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Fielding Smith. (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack )

1988 The Great Mouse Detective released as an American animated mystery-comedy film. he film was also known as The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective for its 1992 theatrical re-release and Basil the Great Mouse Detective in some countries. The main characters are all mice and rats living in Victorian London in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes.

   1986 poster.

2010 Humor. Douglas visited London for his annual holiday and stayed at a large hotel. However, he dinna feel that the natives were friendly. “At three o’clock every morning,” Douglas told a Borthwick, “they hammered on mae bedroom door, on the walls, even on the floor ane ceiling. They hammered so loud Ah could hardly hear maeself playing me bagpipes.”

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2012 Trump will open Scottish course 9 July 2012. Preparations made. Top Trumps – Trump has long been an avid golfer, with a reported low single-figure handicap. He has even published a book compiling advice on the game he has received from his favorite professionals. Aberdeen. http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/120710023614-top-trumps-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg Great Grandson of Alexander MacLeod, a crofter and fisherman, was born 10 May 1830 in Stornoway, Ross, Scotland.

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