MARCH 11 – 1296 King John Balliol, Lord of Galloway summoned all able-bodied Scotsmen to bear arms and gather at Caddonlee by 11 March. Several Scottish nobles chose to ignore the summons, including Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick,

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whose Carrick estates had been seized by John Balliol and reassigned to John ‘The Red’ Comyn. Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick had become Earl of Carrick at the resignation of his father earlier that year.

Galloway Crest: A mound, bespread with the rays of the sun Proper embraced between two corn-ears in saltire, and ensigned with a crosslet Or Motto: HIGHER

1900 railway map shows Clovenfords in center of the map. Caddonlee is a farm in the village of Clovenfords in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, where Caddon Water meets the River Tweed. Nearby villages left to right, Lyne, Broomlee, Macbie Hill, Eddleston, Peebles, Fountainhall, Cardrorut, Yarrow W., Innerlelihen, Walkerburn, Thorniclce, Stow, Glovenfords, Selkirk, Lindean, Abbotsford, Bowland, Oxton, Lauder, Melrose, Boswells, Earlston, Gordon, Greenlaw, Berwick, Marchmont,

1307 Battle of Glen Trool, sometime in March. Robert the Bruce drives back an English raiding party in a minor skirmish. First War of Scottish Independence.

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Bruce defeats an English force at Glen Trool – 1307. After his return from exile, Bruce ambushed and defeated a larger force at Glen Trool. It proved to be a great propaganda victory and brought Bruce more supporters. Video: A history of Scotland: Bishop Makes King.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/wars_of_independence/bruce_defeats_an_english_force_at_glen_trool/

1488 Andrew Stewart Lord Avandale, acted as an auditor of exchequer and witnessed a few royal charters. He died before the following July, when James IV offered 18s. for his ‘sawlemess’ in the church of Stirling (Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, i. 89). Avandale’s wife’s name is nowhere recorded, or if recorded, lost again, and he died without surviving issue. He was succeeded by his nephew, Alexander, son of his brother, Walter Stewart of Morphie, who inherited the lands of Avandale, and, dying before 1500, was succeeded by a younger brother, Andrew, who about that date received the title of Lord Avandale, and in 1543 was created lord Ochiltree (Registrum Magni Sigilli, vol. ii. No. 2516, cf. No. 1632). The eldest son of Andrew, third lord Avandale (and first lord Ochiltree), was Andrew Stewart, second lord Ochiltree [q. v.]; the second son was Henry Stewart, first lord Methven [q. v.]; and the third son, Sir James Stewart of Beath, was father of James Stewart of Doune, who was created lord Doune on 24 Nov. 1581, and was ancestor of the Stewarts, earls of Moray. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 54.

Check out this book cover below. Does Andrew Stewart finally get the celebrity he deserves?

[Humor – Very Funny research. Visit these web sites to see what they say. In preparing this column in 2013, I noticed my reference to Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord Avandale, my ancestor, and thought I’d again check the search engines for graphics. Andrew was a very obscure Stewart, and nothing had previously been published – no portraits, no wills, no journals, no jokes, no law suits. We don’t even know his spouse, or wife, or mother(s) of his children. So, imagine my surprise to see this cover for a whole 78 page BOOK on Andrew! Still I thought it random, or singular, or mystical, so I checked the web site, and sure enough this book cover is a download of the Wikipedia article on Andrew, but in black and white, instead of color. The Wikipedia article has about 800 words, and 3 pictures, so I’m not sure how the book can consume 78 pages unless each page has only a dozen words, and or the pages are the size of large postage stamps (or 3 by 5 cards?). Or letters 3 inches high. Maybe this picture of the cover is a full size copy of the book! So read some more below.]

http://sunbeamalpine.org/forum/showthread.php?t=15216 wrote ‘this is something I found out via the Bellett forum. A penname ‘Frederic P Miller’ is downloading text from Wikipedia, sending it to a “print on demand” self-publishing house called Alphaprint and advertising on Amazon, Booktopia, Abe Books and many others. The prices – $60 upwards – consist of Wikipedia printouts of varying accuracy, doubtful relevance and questionable reproduction quality – eg what is color in Wikipedia will be black and white in the book. Wikipedia is free. “Miller” (if that’s his real name) currently has 77,000+ books listed on Amazon (2014).

[So I became intrigued as to the picture on the cover of the Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord Avandale book, and found this picture

 St. Goarshausen, Burg Katz, with Lorelei rock in Rhineland-Palatinate.   Castle Katz on the Rhine in Germany. Just because I can’t find the picture on the cover for a castle in Scotland, doesn’t mean that some Scottish real estate developer didn’t copy the Rhine land castle. I am advised that Ludwig built a castle in Germany, modeled on Versailles France, because Ludwig thought he {Ludwig} was Louis XIVth, and Disney built the castle in Fantasyland patterned on Neuschwanstein castle, also King Ludwig 2nd, or ‘Mad King Ludwig’. Katz castle stands on a ledge looking downstream from the riverside at St. Goar. It was first built around 1371 by Count Wilhelm II of Katzenelnbogen. The castle was bombarded in 1806 by Napoleon and rebuilt in the late 19th century, between 1896-98. So this makes the humor even better, the book sold on Andrew Stewart is as much fiction as the fictional McDuck clan, the Disney animation characters elsewhere noted in these columns.]

1502 Golf was subsequently permitted.

 Trump Golf cap

1599 never happened in Scotland.

1751 did not occur in England, Ireland, British North America, and British colonies, as 1751 only had 282 days due to the Calendar Act of 1750. But 1751 did occur in Scotland, as 1751 had 365 days. The world’s oldest lunar “calendar” is in an Aberdeenshire field.

1849 Scotsman John McLaws, who recalled, “Left Scotland for Salt Lake City in March 1849 in the ship Hartley. In steaming up the Mississippi from New Orleans to St. Louis the cholera broke out. Buried about 50 of the Saints. I was very bad with it, but through the blessing of the Lord, recovered,’ ‘In the fall my intended wife Joanna Ross came up from St. Louis.  We were promised before I left home.  She left Scotland in the fall of 49.’  HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

1938 Donald’s Better Self. (fictional Scot’s clan McDuck) Donald is torn between his angel and his devil side.

1941 US Congress passes the Lend-Lease Bill, authorizing huge war loans to Britain and the Soviet Union. BBC

1978 world cup winners (after 507 years from 1471).

1985  Mikhail Gorbachev is confirmed as the Soviet Union’s new – and ultimately final – leader. BBC. The Gorbachev and Reagan summits, over the next 2 years, confirm that the American Strategic Defense Initiative is going to Bankrupt the Soviet Union, ultimately winning the cold war. Reagan was clan Wilson.

1992 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, American Broadcasting Company, “London, May 1916”, fictional Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones, Jr. is a title character in the franchise. We know ‘Indiana’ is Scots, because his father ‘Senior’, is a Scot.

In the tradition of other famous fictional Scot’s, fictional Sherlock Holmes, Indiana Jones and Scrooge McDuck.

2010 Melania Knauss Trump of Slovenia featured by Avenue. Married to Donald John Trump Sr. (clans MacLeod, McSwane, Smith) http://www.melaniatrump.com/my-world/