MARCH 28 1318 Berwick passes to the Scots. Spalding, a burgess was disgusted with the English.  Bruce garrisoned the town and committed its safety to his son in law, the High Steward of Scotland.

BERWICK-ON-TWEED FROM A WATER-COLOUR SKETCH PAINTED BY JAMES ORROCK, R.I.  The Border Country 1906.

1424 James I ransom treaty agreed at Durham for 60,000 Marks, a dowery remitted of 10,000 marks.

1560 The  Siege of Leith, and loss of Alexander Lockhart, brother of the Laird of Bar, saw the slaughter continue as defeat stared 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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Not only this but by March 1560 the Lords of the Congregation [Lords of the congregation included Argyll, Arran, Atholl,  Balnaves, Boyd, Campbell, Douglas, Drummond, Erskine, Gordon, Kirkcaldy, Lindsay, Mar, Morton,  Moray, Murray, Ochiltree, Ogilvy, Rothes, Ruthven, Stewart, Willock, Wishart, and Minister Knox)]

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now ordered a General muster before the walls of Leith and by April an English Army under Lord Grey de Wilton marched into Scotland with Sir James Croft as second in command. The English force consisting of 1250 Calvary and 6000 infantry. Their first stop was at Douglas and then at Haddington, but it was at Prestonpans 1560 that they met the Scottish leaders and this was one of the most important battles in Scottish History as this was the first time that the Scots and English came together as allies.

1566 – Lennox advised of trial of Bothwell for murder of Darnley. (TG 32-120)

Mary Stuart and James Darnley

1780 Outside of Charleston South Carolina. Fraser’s Highlanders (71^st Regiment of Foot’ 1^st Battalion march on Charleston, where the Americans had withdrawn. Back story – Upon the realization that war with the American Colonies was imminent, the British Army was expanded from its 70 numbered Regiments of Foot. The first new regiment was raised by Colonel Simon Fraser and designated the 71st Regiment of Foot. King George III bestowed the honour of being the first new regiment to Fraser because of the outstanding service of another regiment of Fraser’s Highlanders, the 78th Regiment (1753–1763), in the Seven Years (or French and Indian) War. The earlier unit’s service in Canada was widely lauded and equal hopes of success were held for the “new” Fraser’s Highlanders. Wikipedia

1800 Thomas Cochrane, 10^th  Earl of Dundonald. As Lord Cochrane, Commands brig sloop HMS Speedy.

1835 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio. (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots) Three years previous to the death of Adam, Adam called Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, and Methuselah, who were all high priests, with the residue of his posterity who were righteous, into the valley of   Adam-ondi-Ahman, and there bestowed upon them his last blessing. And the Lord appeared unto them, and they rose up and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the prince, the archangel. Doctrine and Covenants 107.

 The valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman, in northwestern Missouri, near Gallatin.

www.lds.org/scriptures/

1887 Future winner of the 1905 The John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium, John Moses Browning (January 21 or January 23, 1855 – November 26, 1926), (clans Hamilton –Avondale, Lanarkshie, Scotland, Allison, Ellyson – Windyedge, Lanark)  member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a two-year mission in Georgia beginning on March 28, 1887. The Colt 1911, Browning 1917/19, and the BAR saw action with US forces in World War I, World War II and the Korean War, with the 1911 going on to serve as the U.S.’s standard military side arm until 1985; a variant is still used by special operations units of the United States Marine Corps and the design remains very popular amongst civilian shooters and some police departments. The Browning Hi-Power would have a similarly lengthy period of service outside the United States, and remains the standard side arm of the Australian, British, and Canadian armed forces. The M2 Browning machine gun, the timeless .50 caliber “Ma-Deuce”, which was developed in 1918, entered service with the US Armed Forces in 1921, and remains in active service for nearly a century with armed forces across the world in a variety of roles. The M4 cannon, a 37mm autocannon, was initially designed by Browning in 1921, and entered service in 1938; it was used both in aircraft and on the U.S. Navy PT boat during World War II.

Colt Model of 1911 U.S. Army. Browning’s United States Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911

The druggist John Scott of Edinburgh organized a $4,000 fund which, after his death in 1815 was administered by a merchant until the first award, a copper medal and “an amount not to exceed twenty dollars”, was given in 1822. The John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium, created in 1816, is a medal presented to men and women whose inventions improved the “comfort, welfare, and happiness of human  kind” in a significant way.  The Franklin Institute and the City Council of Philadelphia.

• Browning’s big gun (.50 caliber) won air superiority for America around the world. Army, Navy and Marine fighters were credited with 25,264 aerial victories, nearly all armed wholly or mainly with AN/M2s. The exceptions were 412 victoriesgained by British aircraft (mainly Spitfires)

https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2017/2/23/the-50-cal-browning-machine-gun-the-gun-that-won-the-war

1941 – World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan  (British name)– in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers. The cape is on the southwest coast of Greece’s Peloponnesian peninsula. The Italians called it the

Battle of Gaudo.

Battle of Cape Matapan or Gaudo by Gordon Smith 2008, naval-history.net.

The English fleet covered troop movements to Greece, when they learned the Italian battle fleet, including a battleship would attack the convoys. The Ultra decryptions intercepted the Italian signals, and to conceal this from the Italians, a reconnaissance plane was flown over the Italians, to think they were spotted from the air.  Also, Admiral Cunningham slipped away from an Alexandrian  (Egypt) resort to board his flag ship.  The Italian Admiral was told the British Royal Navy had only one battleship which was operational, and no aircraft carriers, when the Brits had 3 battleships and a carrier.   Among the English fleet were the destroyer HMAS Stuart, (Australian, named  from the royal House of Stuart,) 10^thFlotilla, and    HMS Hotspur [nickname of Sir Henry Percy As a tribute to his speed in advance and readiness to attack” on the Scottish borders, the Scots bestowed on him the name ‘Haatspore’. Percy was  captured by James 2nd Earl Douglas,  at Otterburn  on 10 August 1388] and Carlisle (Scot’s clan,  named for the English city Carlisle, Royal Navy C Class Light cruiser).  The English had radar, the Italians did not.  Before engaging, the Italian fleet, allowed to be among the ten largest fleets in the world, learned the British carrier Formidable was at sea, but the Italian headquarters decided to go ahead to show the Nazis the Italian will to fight, and confidence in the speed of their warships. The ships engaged over a 3 days at 24,000 yards, or so, with a thousand rounds.  During a rare night action, a searchlight aboard the Valiant was manned by the 19 year auld Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, later  Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, and still later, Duke of Edinburgh, and husband to Queen Elizabeth 2^nd.   Philip studied in Scotland when the World War broke out, and joined the British Royal Navy.  Wikipedia.

 HMS Hotspur – Ordered 1934 from Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland, launched 1936, and sold for scrap in 1972. Hotspur is a nickname of Sir Henry Percy (1364–1403), known as Harry Hotspur, eldest son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland.  In 1385 Sir Henry accompanied Richard II on an expedition into Scotland. ‘As a tribute to his speed in advance and readiness to attack’ on the Scottish borders, the Scots bestowed on him the name ‘Haatspore’. On 14 September 1402 Percy, his father, and the Earl of Dunbar and March were victorious against a Scottish force at the Battle of Homildon Hill, taking prisoner Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas.

 HMAS Stuart (formerly HMS Stuart) was a British Scott-class flotilla leader, launched 1918.  It’s namesake was the Scottish House of Stuart. The badge depicts a Stuart royal crown and a Yorkshire rose: the Scottish Stuart’s claim to the English throne came from their descent from Edward IV of the House of York, and Henry 7^th of Lancaster.

1942 The Raid at St. Nazaire or Operation Chariot. The Campbeltown was a First World War destroyer and had previously been the USS Buchanan (for Scots ancestry President Buchanan) in the United States Navy. USS Buchanan had come into Royal Navy service in 1940 as one of 50 destroyers transferred to the United Kingdom under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement (US Lend Lease). The obsolete destroyer HMS Campbeltown, accompanied by 18 smaller craft, crossed the English Channel to the Atlantic coast of France and was rammed into the Normandie dock gates. The ship had been packed with delayed-action explosives, well hidden within a steel and concrete case, that detonated later that day, putting the dock out of service for the remainder of the war and up to ten years after.

 Starboard side view of Campbeltown as USS Buchanan in 1936 (named for two Scots clans).

 German photo of HMS Campbeltown, rammed into the gates, taken before it exploded. The ship’s bell of HMS Campbeltown was given to the town of Campbelltown, Pennsylvania, as a gesture of appreciation towards the United States.

1998 THE WINNER IS . . . SCOTLAND AS BEST SUPPORTING COUNTRY. On a clear day from the William Wallace monument, a panorama of mountain, castle and water unfolds before the viewer – but these days, it seems, you can see all the way to Hollywood.

A mile away on the plain stands a bridge on the spot where Wallace ambushed the English seven centuries ago, long before American novelist Randall Wallace thought to call him Braveheart. “Braveheart,” Mel Gibson’s epic about the triumph and tragedy of the warrior Wallace, topped the Oscar ceremonies Monday night with five awards. Stirling Castle on another, bigger outcropping watches over the town opposite; the River Forth winds through marsh and banks of heather; seven historic battlefields stretch below the Ochil Hills and the Trossachs, the southern Highlands approach from where Rob Roy MacGregor assailed the English.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/480052/THE-WINNER-IS—-SCOTLAND-AS-BEST-SUPPORTING-COUNTRY.html?pg=all

2014 Lorenzo Semple Jr., died (born March 27, 1923) (previously Lorenzo Elliott Semple III) could trace his clan  Semple direct line back to the Great Lord Semple in Scotland (Robert, 3^rd Lord Semple 1505-1576) [fabpedigree.com].  American Screenwriter who created the Batman TV series. Wikipedia. Spouse Joyce Miller 1963-2014 (married 51 years).  Hollywood reporter obit.

The screenwriter died Friday of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, his daughter Maria Semple — the novelist and Emmy-nominated comedy writer-producer who has worked on such series as Mad About You, Suddenly Susan and Arrested Development — told Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter.

Most recently, Semple and Marcia Nasatir, a former studio executive, producer and agent, teamed for Reel Geezers, that saw the Hollywood octogenarians bicker as they reviewed movies.

Semple penned the show’s “bible” for the other writers. (One rule: Batman should never break the law, not even to park in a no-parking zone during a crime-fighting emergency.)

“I think Batman was the best thing I ever wrote, including those big movies,” Semple said in a September 2008 interview with the Archive of American Television. “As a whole work, it came out the way that I wanted it to, and I was excited by it.

“I once went down to a fancy wine-tasting benefit in Princeton. When people found out I wrote Batman, they mobbed me! I was astounded.”

Semple also penned the Batman movie that was released in July 1966 between seasons one and two; that took him two weeks.

Semple enrolled at Yale (New Haven Connecticut) but soon left school for France (French North Africa) in 1941 to drive an ambulance for the Free French Forces. He earned a Croix de Guerre after surviving a battle in the Libyan desert, returned to the U.S., was drafted into the Army and given a Bronze Star. A contrived story about military intelligence he wrote made it into Time magazine.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lorenzo-semple-jr-dead-creator-675354

 Adam West and Burt Ward. “POW!”, “WHAM!”, “CRR-ASH!” and “ARRGH!”. “Holy crackup!”, “Holy Titanic!”, “Holy camouflage!” and “Holy happenstance!”

2016 Utah is ranked 2^nd highest (4.6% of the state population) among the 50 United States with the top percentages of Scottish residents (Wikipedia 26 March 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Americans#Scottish_Americans_by_state ).   How are the Scots in Utah doing? United Health Foundation America’s Health rankings  Smoking by State Percentage of adults who are smokers (reported smoking at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and currently smoke every or some days)    2016 annual report. Utah #1, at 9.1% (lowest smoking rate in nation – best), US average  17.5%

http://assets.americashealthrankings.org/app/uploads/ahr16-complete-v2.pdf

2016 So the Trump paradox is that while he has become more likely to win the nomination, he is becoming more likely to lose the November election. Unless things change, he might even do worse than Mitt Romney
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433328/donald-trump-likely-nominee-likely-loser-general-election.

Trump’s mother was born a Scot from clans MacQueen, Macaulay, MacLeod, of Aberdeenshire and Outer Hebrides.

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