November 2 – Michaelmas Court Term – November 2 to November 25

1226 Isabella de Clare born. Eventually ancestor of English and Scottish royal houses.

1389 Alexander, earl of Buchan, lord of Badenoch and Ross deserted his childless wife and lived with Mairead inghean Eachann had Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar. Marital law was the prerogative of the Church and so on 2 November 1389, Bishop Alexander Bur of Moray and Bishop Alexander Kylquhous of Ross, ordered Buchan’s return to his wife, Euphemia.

Map showing lands of Ross and Moray.

1485 Mad War peace of Bourges suspended the hostilities. The Mad War (La Guerre folle in French), also known as the War of the Public Weal, was a late Medieval conflict, 1485 to 1488. between a coalition of feudal lords and the French monarchy. Anne of Beaujeu was regent after the death of Louis XI and before the majority of the young king Charles VIII. The principal lords involved were Louis II of Orléans, the cousin of the king (and future Louis XII of France); Francis II of Brittany; René II, Duke of Lorraine; Alain d’Albret; Jean de Châlon, Prince of Orange; Count Charles of Angoulême. Other leading lords supported the revolt, among them Jean de Lescun, “the Bastard of Armagnac”, Philippe de Commines and governor of Guyenne and Commines.

1525 The main mass of French troops arrived at Pavia in the last days of October. By 2 November, Montmorency had crossed the Ticino River and invested the city from the south, completing its encirclement. Inside were about 9,000 men, mainly mercenaries whom Antonio de Leyva was able to pay only by melting the church plate.

The Battle of Pavia by Ruprecht Heller

1698 The Darien colony. November 2. The fleet made landfall off the coast of Darien on November 2.

The arrival of the colonists took place in winter, when the air was cool and temperate ; but with the summer returned the heat, and with the heat came the diseases of a tropical climate. Those who had reported so favourably of the climate of Darien, Had probably been persons who had only visited the coast during the healthy season, or mariners, who, being chiefly on ship-board, find many situations healthy, which prove pestilential to Europeans residing on shore. The health of the settlers, accustomed to a cold and mountainous country, gave way fast under the constant exhalations of the [Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather-59-41] sultry climate, and even a more pressing danger than disease itself arose from the scarcity of food. The provisions which the colonists had brought from Scotland were expended, and the country afforded them only such supplies as could be procured by the precarious success of fishing and the chase.

“A New Map of the Isthmus of Darien in America, The Bay of Panama, The Gulph of Vallona or St. Michael, with its Islands and Countries Adjacent.” In A letter giving a description of the Isthmus of Darian, Edinburgh: 1699.

1709 – Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759) born.

1734 – Daniel Boone American explorer (d. 1820) born.

1772 – American Independence War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.

1783 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his “Farewell Address to the Army”.

1795 November 2 James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849). Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee. A Democrat, Polk served as the 17th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1835–1839) and Governor of Tennessee (1839–1841). Polk was the surprise (“dark horse”) candidate for president in 1844, defeating Henry Clay of the rival Whig Party by promising to annex Texas.

James Knox Polk’s father, Samuel Polk, was a farmer and surveyor of Scots-Irish descent. His mother, Jane Polk (née Knox), was a descendant of a brother of the Scottish religious reformer John Knox. She named her firstborn after her father James Knox. Like most early Scots-Irish settlers in the North Carolina mountains, the Knox and Polk families were Presbyterian. While Jane remained a devout Presbyterian her entire life, Samuel (son of, Ezekiel Polk), rejected dogmatic Presbyterianism.

Joseph Smith Junior, had also declared as a candidate for the Presidency in 1844, but was murdered the previous June 1844. Smith’s platform was not only to annex Texas, but the whole of North America. Half of Mexico was acquired by 1848.

The Mexican Cession (in red) was acquired through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Gadsden Purchase (in orange) was acquired through purchase after Polk left office.

On the same day [August 22, 23, 1877] these ordinances were performed, President Woodruff records in his journal that he baptized brother McAllister for General Washington & his forefathers and all the Presidents of the United States that were on my list.There were Baptized in all to day 682” (Woodruff, Journal 7:367-69)–Arnold K. Garr, Epilogue, Christopher Columbus, p. 71-73.

1806 Cape Ortegal. 4 ships which escaped under rear admiral Dumanoir, were captured by Sir Richard Strachan. Tytler’s Britannica.

1831 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio. (Clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 68. Sometime in November. And whatsoever they shall speak when moved upon by the Holy Ghost shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.

1860 Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald mourned.

gravestone of Thomas Cochrane, the 10th Earl of Dundonald, in Westminster Abbey. http://www.scotclans.com/scottish-clans/clan-cochrane/cochrane-coat-of-arms/

1861 – American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.

1889 North Dakota and South Dakota State hood. (Wikipedia)

North Dakota Scots names –

Abercrombie Ayr Balfour Bathgate Buchanan Elgin Elliot Fingal (“Fingal” is the Scottish form of Finn MacCool) Glen Ullin Grant County Hamilton Leith Logan County McHenry County McIntosh County McKenzie County McLean County Morton County Perth Perth Township South Dakota Scots names- Aberdeen Alexandria Ardmore Arlington Avon Brown County Campbell County Dallas Douglas County Eden Fulton Geddes Grant County Gretna Hecla Kyle Lennox Mansfield Marshall County Martin McCook County McIntosh McPherson County Milltown Monroe Montrose Mount Vernon Pollock Roslyn Scotland Springfield Stanley County Wallace Waverly, Codington County

1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team. The Golden Gophers would go on to win national championships in 1934 and 1935.

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1899 – The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War. Scots troops in fighting.

1917 – The Balfour Declaration was a letter from the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland to proclaim British support. His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

The “Balfour Declaration” was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with Turkey and the Mandate for Palestine. British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour was a Scot. This was some 7 decades after Orson Hyde dedicated the Holy Land for return of the Jews on October 24, 1841, and 19 centuries after the third destruction of Jerusalem.

Arthur James Balfour, Scot, the British Foreign Secretary

1938 Pat Buchanan born November 2, 1938). A member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Writer, adviser. (clan Buchanan)

1942 Tank Battle of Tell el Aqqaqir: 9am 2 November; Axis forces begin retreat: 10pm 2 November.

November 2–4, 2007, the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin’ Festival. (clan Cash)

2012 Humor. Bruce was looking for a gift to send to Hamilton. Everything was too expensive, except for a broken vase. which Bruce could buy for almost nothing. Bruce asked the store to send it, hoping Hamilton would think it had been broken in transit. In due time, Bruce received Hamilton’s thank ye reply. ” Thanks for the vase.” it read. ” It was thoughtful of ye tae wrap each piece separately.”

http://www.fife.50megs.com/scots-jokes2.htm

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