October 10 732 – Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France, Charles Martel and the Franks, defeat the Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading further into Western Europe. The governor of Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is killed during the battle. This impacted France for generations, and later Scotland and the auld alliance.

Charles de Steuben’s Bataille de Poitiers en Octobre 732 depicts a triumphant Charles Martel (mounted) facing ‘Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi (right) at the Battle of Tours.

1066 Normans in England, and afterwards in Scotland.

ISTE NUNTIAT HAROLDUM REGE[M] DE EXERCITU WILLELMI DUCIS

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1307 Battle of Loudon Hill, near Darvel. King of Scots Robert I, the Bruce, comprehensively defeated English forces under de Valence.

Darvel Darbhail) is a small town in East Ayrshire, Scotland at the eastern end of the Irvine Valley and is sometimes referred to as “The Lang Toon” (English: the Long Town). Sir William Wallace, the Scottish freedom fighter, has also been associated with the area. 15^th century minstrel Blind Harry wrote in his poem The Wallace that Wallace and his men defeated an English force at the hill in 1296 during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Blind Harry also tells of how the English general, Fenwick, who supposedly killed Wallace’s father, was killed during the battle. Maps of the area now name a mound to the east of Loudoun Hill as ‘Wallace’s Grave’. A battle between Robert the Bruce and the English was also fought there on 10 May 1307.

Fenwick is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland, northeast of Kilmarnock.

On this map of the Kilmarnock district, Fenwick is in the upprer right quadrant on the Fenwick river.

1308 Patrick IV, Earl of March, a ‘Competitor’ (1242–1308) died. Patrick de Dunbar “8^th” Earl of March, was the most important magnate in the border regions of Scotland. He was one of the Competitors for the Crown of Scotland.

1345 William, 5^th Earl of Sutherland the Earldom of Sutherland was erected into a Regality with a similar limitation.

1456. Public health precautions, issuing in 1456 an act prescribing measures to be taken. Those who were stricken with the plague should remain in their own houses, providing they were able to maintain themselves and their household. If they could not, provision was to be made for them. Those who refused to abide by these restrictions were to be put outside the town, at a place where they had to stay until they died or recovered. A policy of medical isolation of cases of infection was finally being organised, and the place of banishment outside the towns were generally known as the Foul Moor. The isolation of lepers in “hospitals” (a basic building to provide shelter, sleeping and cooking arrangements) outside town walls was a long-standing local policy, so the plague arrangements were merely an extension of this. Very few histories take much notice of the effect of pestilence on normal life, partly because for most people it truly was a normal occurrence at variable intervals, and an occurrence that they could do little to prevent as far as they were aware. PLAGUE! by Gordon Johnson, Wick, Caithness, Scotland.

‘Repent, repent ye, Hear the words of that God who made you, by the voice of pestilence.’ Jesus Christ in Doctrine and Covenants section 43.

1559 On 10 October, One of 24 Lords of the Congregation. James Hamilton, 3^rd Earl of Arran (c1532–1609).

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Arran joined the Lords of the Congregation and fought tirelessly against the French and Mary of Guise in the cause of the Scottish Reformation. With his cousin, Robert, Master of Maxwell,on his father’s orders, he attacked Crichton Castle

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the home of the Earl of Bothwell, and Falkland Palace. Arran and his accomplices took money and silver ware from the place of Daldowie

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1571 – Battle of Tillieangus – a Clan Fraser joined forces with Clan Forbes in their centuries-long feud against the Clan Gordon. The Frasers and Forbes were joined by Clan Keith and Clan Crichton.

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The Gordons were joined by Clan Leslie, Clan Irvine and Clan Seton.

Seton Crest: On a ducal coronet, a dragon Vert, spouting fire Proper, with wings elevated and charged with a star Argent. Motto: HAZARD YET FORWARD ON Badge: yew. Seat: Seton Palace, East Lothian The chiefs of Seton were the Lords Seton and Earls of Winton (first creation), whose titles and estates were confiscated due to their support of the Jacobite cause.

1575 – Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.

1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

1654 John Savage, 2^nd Earl Rivers died. Born 1603 Cheshire. first son of Thomas Savage, 1^st Viscount Savage and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Darcy, 1^st Earl Rivers. He succeeded to the Savage viscountcy in 1635 on the death of his father, and succeeded to the Rivers earldom on the death of his grandfather in 1640, By 1626 he had married Catherine, daughter of William Parker, 13^th Baron Morley by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Tresham, and they had eight children.

1715 Lord Derwentwater. This reinforcement made them near sixty horse, with which they proceeded to the small town of Rothbury, and from thence to Warkworth, where they proclaimed King James III. On the 10^th of October they marched to Morpeth, where they received further reinforcements, which raised them to three hundred horse, the highest number which they ever attained. [TG68-294]

VIEW OF WARKWORTH FROM A WATER-COLOUR SKETCH PAINTED BY JAMES ORROCK, R.I. Border Country 1906

1743 Field Marshal John Campbell, 2^nd Duke of Argyll, 1^st Duke of Greenwich KG (10 October 1678 – 4 October 1743), died.

The Duke of Argyll. His parents were Archibald Campbell, 1^st Duke of Argyll and Elizabeth Tollemache, daughter of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3^rd Baronette

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1776 “Battle of Brooklyn, 175^th anniversary’

1951 October 10. Gen. George Washington evaluating army. The Battle of Brooklyn is more generally known as the Battle of Long Island, contested August 27, 1776. British and Hessian troops, under Gens. Clinton, Howe, Cornwallis, and DeHesiter, attacked the American fortifications in what now is Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The attacking forces overpowered the desperately fighting Americans under Gen. John Sullivan. Gen Washington arrived late in the day with additional troops, saw the futility of making a stand, and withdrew the remaining American forces in a skillful night retreat

1829 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, then delivered to the E. B. Grandin Printing company in Palmyra New York, according to the Crandall Gutenberg Printing Museum in Provo Utah. The Scots Roman type is the font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The contract with E. B. Grandin’s print shop to print the book was signed on Tuesday 25 Aug 1829, and the completed book was on sale by Friday 26 March 1830. Typesetter John H. Gilbert selects type and inserts commas, periods, and other punctuation as Gilbert reads Oliver Cowdery’s hand written copy. One form signarture of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed per 6 day 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html

7^th   form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in 2^nd Nephi.

Grandin Building restored.

1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later renamed the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 midshipmen students and seven professors.

1855 Maxwell was made a fellow of Trinity on 10 October 1855. A great lover of Scottish poetry, Maxwell wrote Rigid Body Sings, closely based on Comin’ Through the Rye by Robert Burns, which he apparently used to sing while accompanying himself on a guitar. It’s opening lines

Gin a body meet a body, Flyin’ through the air.
Gin a body hit a body,
Will it fly? And where?

Maxwell, Christianity was an evangelical Presbyterian, and an Elder of the Church of Scotland. Attending both Church of Scotland (his father’s denomination) and Episcopalian (his mother’s denomination) services as a child, Maxwell later underwent an evangelical conversion in April 1853, which committed him to an anti-positivist position.

1913 – President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike thus ending construction on the Panama Canal, 213 years after the Scots Darien colony.

Wilson uses tariff, currency and anti-trust laws to prime the pump and get the economy working in a 1913 political cartoon

1732 English map of DARIEN, east of VERAGUA and NEW GRANADA. Note the italic comment above CARTAGENA on the east side of this section.

At Cartagena the Gallions usually stay 60 days, and thence go to Portobel [DARIEN] where they lye 30 days and then return again to Cartagena, from whence after som stay they sail for the Havana, to meet there ye Flota, which is a small number of ships, that go to La Vera Cruz to take in ye Effects of that Country.

Comment – as Mosquitoes only fly within a few hundred yards of their fresh water supply, they are less likely to reach out to ships lying in the port at the Bay of Portobel – hence ships staying twice as long in Cartagena, and less in Portobel.

Locations listed above on the map, Gulf shore side, Asuda de Verragu, Arragu River, River Belem, El Portatte, Port Lagostas, Bay of Portobel, Isle de las Mirias, Isle de Bastimentos, Port Serivan Samblas Pr, Samblas, Spinger, Islands, Isle Pinas, New Edinburg, New Calidonia, Golden Isla, Gulf of Darien, Sino Bay Frinds Islands, Isle St Benardo, Isle Cares, Salmedina River Cartagena, Port Canoa, Arenas Isle, Rio Grande.

Locations listed on the map, South Sea Side, Port Mala, Peazi, Isle Guanos, Oleta, Chame Point, Isle Tabogill, Isle Perica, Panama, Chepelio, Cheapo River, The Bay of Panama, Tabago, Sholes, Kings or Perl Gulf of St Michael, Port Garachina, isle St Paul Port Pinas, Scuchadero, Ste Maria, Gold River and Mines.

Note the names of New Edinbug and New Calidonia, Scottish names listed on the map, some 3 decades after the Darien colony failure.

1938 – The Munich Agreement cedes the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. The Democracies throw away over 50 modern Czech divisions. This, with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics pact, makes a major European war and eventually World War, inevitable within a year. 57,000 Scots died in World War Two, not counting the tens of thousands of Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans and Canadians. of Scots Descent.

Ethnic distribution in Austria-Hungary in 1911: regions with a German majority are depicted in pink, those with Czech majorites in blue.

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• 1940 Sometime. The “American Committee for Defense of British Homes” in 1940, sent an urgent appeal — in American Rifleman — for Americans to send “Pistols – Rifles – Revolvers – Shotguns – Binoculars” because “British civilians, faced with the threat of invasion, desperately need arms for the defense of their homes.” Thousands of arms were collected and sent to England, one of which was a .30-’06 Model 1903 target rifle owned by Major John W. Hession. Hession was one of the pre-eminent high power rifle target shooters of his day, and he used that rifle to win Olympic gold at Bisley Camp in England in 1908. The rifle, unlike the majority sent, was returned and can now be viewed in the national Firearms Museum.
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This Rifle was used by Major John W> Hession New Haven Conn in winning Olympics Bisley England 1908, Grand Aggregate Camp Perry 1908, Worlds 800 Yd Record Camp Perry 1909, Pan American Argentina 1912, Palma Match Canada 1912, North American SeaGirt 1913, Wimbledon Cup Caldwell 1919, Adg Gens Cup 1920, NY Champ 1911-12-14, Catrow Cup 1n920, Marine Corps Cup Perry 1913, For Obvious Reasons The Return of this Rifle after Germany is defeated would be Deeply Appreciated. Hession was born in Clinton Canada.

1963 From Russia with Love journey and the truck ride were shot in Argyll, Scotland. On 6 July 1963, while scouting locations in Argyll, Scotland for that day’s filming of the climactic boat chase, Terence Young’s helicopter crashed into the water with Art Director Michael White and a cameraman aboard. The craft sank into 40–50 feet (12–15 m) of water, but all escaped with minor injuries.

Ian Fleming was the grandson of the Scottish financier Robert Fleming, who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust and the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. Sean Connery was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, to Euphemia “Effie” (née Maclean). The Maclean parents were native Scottish Gaelic speakers from Fife and Uig on the Isle of Skye

September 2006, Isle of Skye, Scotland, Beach at sunset.

1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, signed on January 27 by more than sixty nations, comes into force.

1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the United States, London Bridge reopens in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

1984 Comfort and Joy filmed in Scotland. Scottish comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Bill Paterson as a radio disc jockey whose life undergoes a bizarre upheaval after his girlfriend leaves him.

poster. Two Italian families contest the icecream market of Glasgow.

1985 – United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercepts an Egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and forces it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily where they are arrested. Major John Choate as the Judge Advocate for the International Law desk assigned to USAFE in Ramstein AB Germany.

2005 Newsweek magazine cover of Joseph Smith (clans Huntington, Smith, Lyman, Knox).

2010 Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, died. DBE, AC, OM, (clan Sutherland) (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010)[1] was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano. Born to Scottish parents in Sydney. Cast (Maria, Teatro Comunale di Bologna opera house, Decca record.) Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera, (tragedia lirica), in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari.

Scene 1: Elisabetta’s court at Westminster

The Lords and Ladies of the Court enter after a tournament to honor the French ambassador, who has brought a marriage proposal to Queen Elizabeth from the Dauphin François. They express their joy as Elizabeth enters. She considers the proposal, one which would create an alliance with France, but she is reluctant to give up her freedom and also pardon her cousin Mary Stuart, the former Queen of Scots, whom she has imprisoned because of various plots against her throne:(Cavatina: Ah! Quando all’ara scorgemi / “Ah! when at the altar a chaste love from heaven singles me out”). Elizabeth expresses her uncertainty while at the same time, Talbot and the courtiers plead for Mary’s life.(Cabaletta: Non posso risolvermi ancor, Ah! dal cielo discenda un raggio/ “I cannot yet decide. Ah! may some ray descend from heaven”)

Just as Elizabeth inquires where Leicester is, he enters and Elizabeth tells him to inform the French ambassador that she will indeed marry François. He betrays no signs of being jealous, and the Queen assumes that she has a rival.

Alone with Leicester, Talbot reveals to him that he has just returned from Fotheringay and gives a letter and a miniature portrait of Mary. Joyously, Leicester recalls his love for Mary: (Aria: Leicester, then duet with Talbot: Ah! rimiro il bel sembiante/ “Ah! Again I see her beautiful face.”) Talbot asks what he intends to do and Leicester swears to try to free her from her imprisonment: (Vuò liberalla! Vuò liberalla!/ “I want to set her free”). Wikipedia.

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland.

2016 flashback to 1505, when the first printing press was brought to Scotland by A. Mylar, who began printing Bibles, later translated from Latin to English causing the 1560 Protestant Reformation, leading to 1829 Glasgow lead fonts used to set type for the printing of the Book of Mormon, to 1830 Scots’ Joseph Smith the Prophet and the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; leading to 2010 and Scots’ Thomas Monson and these New Testament videos.

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2010-11-10-chapter-9-the-boy-jesus?category=new-testament/new-testament-stories&lang=eng

2016. The New Yorker Miss Congeniality, spoof Donald Trump candidate. (McLoed Clan). Trump’s mother was born in Scotland.

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