September 1 Source abbreviations – TG Tales of a Grandfather, written by Sir Walter Scott 1827 ]- YY Yours for Yesterday by Helen Hill Miller circa 1960.- Wikipedia  – http://www.scotlandvacations.com/scottishhumour.htm

Septem is Latin for seven. From the time of Julius Caesar, and before, the year started after the VERNAL equinox in March, 21-24, i.e. March 25^th. So the 7^h month from March was named September. Scotland only started the year on January 1 in 1600, the English in 1752.

714 Death of Saint Giles patron saint of Edinburgh (and Elgin) Feast day. Feast days were popular in Scotland for a thousand years and dated many events.

1067 – Baldwin V of Flanders died. From 1060 to 1067 Baldwin was the co-Regent with Anne of Kiev (Anne of Russia) for his nephew-by-marriage Philip I of France, Baldwin was also father-in-law to William of Normandy, William the Conqueror who had married Baldwin’s daughter Matilda. Flanders played a role in Edward the Confessor’s foreign policy. Anne of Kiev – Kyiv (or Anna Yaroslavna) (between 1024 and 1032–1075) was the queen consort of France and wife of Henry I, Her parents were Yaroslav I ‘the Wise’ and princess Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden. She will be ancestress of the English royalty from Edward 2^nd and Scots royalty from James 1^st Stewart.

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Son Philip I the Amorous (1052-1108) had Louis VI the Fat (1081-1137) had Louis VII the Younger (1120-1180) had Phillip II Augustus (1165-1223) had Louis VIII the Lion (1187-1226) had Louis IX, Saint Louis (1214-1270) had Philip III the Bold (1245-1285) had Philip IV the Fair (1268-1314) had

Isabella who married Edward II King of England and had Edward III of England (1312-1377) had John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399) had John Beaufort 1^st Marques of Somerset and 1^st earl of Somerset (1373-1410) had Joan Beaufort (1404-1445) Queen of Scotland married to James 1^st of Scotland.

1294 John Balliol, Lord of Galloway King ordered by Edward I to provide Scots troops and funds for an invasion of France.

1414 – William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369) died. Ros first assignment about 1394 from Richard II of England was to join Walter Skirlaw, Bishop of Durham, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland and others in negotiating for a peace treaty with Robert III of Scotland.

1431 sometime in September Battle of Inverlochy (1431)  fought after Alexander of Islay (Alasdair Ìle, Rìgh Innse Gall), Lord of the Isles and Earl of Ross, had been imprisoned by King James I.

The Battle of Inverlochy – 1431. After a failed rising, Alexander MacDonald is arrested. James I sends a force to Lochaber to defeat the remainder of the MacDonalds. The MacDonalds ambush the royal force at Inverlochy and win a decisive battle. Video: A history of Scotland: Language is Power. www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/ the_stewarts/the_battle_of_inverlochy/

The Macdonalds were spread from the Isle of Skye to Loch Ness, to the Firth of Lorne. Also the Macdonald of Glengarry, Macdonald of Keppoch, and Mac

Ross Motto: SPEM SUCCESSUS ALIT.[“Success nourishes hope”]. Badge: juniper or bearberry. Chief: David Campbell Ross of Ross and Balnagowan         The 19th century historian W. F. Skene listed this clan’s badge as uva ursi, which is sometimes known as bearberry. A hand holding a garland of juniper Proper.

1536 James V sailed from Kirkcaldy with six ships including the 600 ton Mary Willoughby and 500 men,

1644 Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1^st Marques of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss’s Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause. Covenanters fled in the utmost terror and confusion, (TG42-391)

From: Heroes and Heroines of the Scottish Covenanters; Dryerre, J. Meldrum; Partridge & Co London; 1901

Tippermuir is marked on the map with the crossed swords, in the middle of this map.

1695 Siege of Namur began 2 July with the History of the Scots Guards (1642–1804) Siege of Namur (1695) by Jan van Huchtenburg. In the foreground King William III, dressed in grey, confers with the Elector of Bavaria.

1715 – King Louis 16^th   of France dies after a reign of 72 years — the longest of any major European monarch.

1719 James (whose birth created the crisis of succession in 1688) marries Princess Clementina. The Old Pretender.

The Solemnization of the Marriage of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart 1688-1766 and Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska 1702-35 at Montefiascone 1^st September 1719 1735

1730 John Cochran (September 1, 1730 – April 6, 1807) was the 4^th Surgeon General of the Continental Army during the war for independence 1781-1783. (clan Cochrane).

1842 Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Latter-day Saints at Nauvoo, Illinois, (clans Huntley, Hamilton, Mackenzie, Mack of Inverness Scotland, and Malcolm King of Scots) Doctrine and Covenants 127. And as for the perils which I am called to pass through, they seem but a small thing to me, as the envy and wrath of man have been my common lot all the days of my life; and for what cause it seems mysterious, unless I was ordained from before the foundation of the world for some good end, or bad, as you may choose to call it. Judge ye for yourselves. God knoweth all these things, whether it be good or bad. But nevertheless, deep water is what I am wont to swim in. It all has become a second nature to me; and I feel, like Paul, to glory in tribulation; for to this day has the God of my fathers delivered me out of them all, and will deliver me from henceforth; for behold, and lo, I shall triumph over all my enemies, for the Lord God hath spoken it.

Joseph Smith Jr.’s store and office is located in Nauvoo, Illinois. www.lds.org/scriptures/history-photos

1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly – Confederate forces attack retreating Union troops in Chantilly, Virginia.

1864 – American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.

1871 – J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961) born.

1880 General Robert’s Relief March to Kandahar and the Battle of Baba Wali. Second Afghan War. Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Roberts VC (Victoria Croxx) KCB against Ayub Khan. 72^nd (Duke of Albany’s) Highlanders, later Seaforth Highlanders, now the Highlanders. *

Seaforth Highlanders merged 1991 to form Queen’s Own Highlanders. Battle Honors.

  
92^nd (Gordon) Highlanders, later Gordon Highlanders, now the Highlanders. Afghanistan is similar in size to Texas. Under 800 miles east to west, same north to south.

92^nd Highlanders storming Gundimullah Sahibdad. The disastrous defeat at Maiwand, 40 miles west of Kandahar, on 27^th July 1880 left the remaining Bombay brigade \ besieged in Kandahar by Ayub Khan’s victorious army, the nearest support hundreds of miles away in Kabul and in Quetta, forces commanded by General Roberts and Brigadier General Phayre respectively. “Bobs Bahadur” moved first, his troops being relatively concentrated around the Afghan capital while Phayre’s Bombay troops were scattered along the lengthy lines of communication connecting Kandahar with India, from Quetta to the Indus River. On 8^th August 1880 Roberts marched out of the Sherpur cantonment in Kabul with his Kabul-Kandahar Field Force; his renowned march to Kandahar had begun.

2^nd Gurkhas and 92^nd Highlanders repel an attack by 
Afghan tribesmen during the Kandahar March. The Central Indian Horse and a battery of artillery, coming up from Gandamak, caught up the 9^th of August as Robert’s army moved across high ground to join the main Kandahar road near Ghuznee, before marching south down that road. The pace was forced as hard as possible; only mountain artillery accompanying the infantry and cavalry; with supplies carried by camel. The days were hot and the nights cold; the troops marching out in the early morning to avoid the full heat of the sun, halting a few minutes every hour, with camp pitched at around midday, in this fashion managing to cover up to 20 miles a day.

The Central India Horse. Messages from Kandahar suggested there was no pressing urgency as the garrison was well able to hold out for some time yet and so, with 88 miles to go. Such messages during a siege are meaningless, often the opposite of the truth in case the courier is captured or killed.

A few years later, General Gordon sent the same messages from Kartoum, in the event the riders were captured. On 31^st August 1880 the Kabul Field Force reached Kandahar and entered the city. Roberts’ 10,000 troops had marched 300 miles in three weeks.

A British Mountain Battery on the line of march to Kandahar, Afghanistan. Roberts resolved to move against Ayub Khan the same day. Ayub’s camp lay to the West of Kandahar, between the Baba Wali range of hills, which rose to 5,000 feet, and the Argandab River, the hills breached by the Baba Wali Kotal and the Murcha Pass. The battle began. Following the bombardment, the 92^nd Highlanders and the 2nd Gurkhas, supported by the 23^rd and 24^th BNI attacked the village of Gundimullah Sahibdad. After 2 hours of close combat the village was carried and the troops moved on to the next fortified village, Pir Paimal. To the South the 72^nd (Albany) Highlanders and the 2^nd Sikhs took Gundigan, the colonel of the 72^nd being killed in the assault.

Highlanders, Sikhs and Gurkhas watch the defeated Afghans being pursued across the plain 
on the far side of the river by the British and Punjabi cavalry after the Battle of Kandahar.

Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1^st Earl Roberts, Bt, VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, KStJ, PC (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914) was one of the most successful British commanders of the 19^th century. He served in the Indian rebellion, the Expedition to Abyssinia and the Second Anglo-Afghan War before leading British Forces to success in the Second Boer War. He also became the last Commander-in-Chief of the Forces before the post was abolished in 1904. His mother was Edinburgh-born Isabella Bunbury

Field Marshal The Earl Roberts. Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Roberts, VC, KCB: “Bobs Bahadur” (Bobs the Lion) to the Indian Army regiments. To the British regiments just “Our Bobs”. Roberts’ march to Kandahar captured the imagination of the Victorian British Empire and was considered a triumph of determination and organization. General Roberts was later elevated to the peerage as a baron, earl and then a viscount.

General Roberts, an artillery officer known to his soldiers affectionately as “Bobs”, suffered the loss of an eye in childhood. An Old Etonian, Roberts won the Victoria Cross in the Indian Mutiny and went on to command the Indian Army and then the British and Empire troops in the Boer War. He suffered personal tragedy in the death of his two sons, Freddie dying in the attempt to rescue the guns at Colenso in the Boer War while winning the Victoria Cross.
 British officers irreverently referred to Roberts’ march to Kandahar, apparently competing with Phayre to relieve the city, as “The Race for the Peerage.” This mockery evaporated 5 years later with the massive failure of the British relief column to reach Khartoum January 26, 1885, and the fall of the government, as a consequence.

Drummer Roddick rescuing Lieutenant Menzies (clan Menzies) of the 92^nd Highlanders.

During the attack on Gundimullah, Lieutenant Menzies [Scots clan pronounced Min’-gus] of the 92^nd found himself attacked by numbers of Ghazis. Knocked to the ground Menzies was rescued first by a drummer from his own regiment and then by a Gurkha. During the war Colour Sergeant Hector MacDonald of the 92^nd was commissioned in the field for bravery and initiative. MacDonald achieved promotion to brigadier and distinguished himself in the Egyptian campaign.

The British, along with NATO, returned to Afghanistan in 2002 after the attack on New York City’s World Trade Center. An attack on one is an attack on all.

1920 – The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.

1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany, Slovakia, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) invade Poland, continuing another war in Europe.

Scotland at War – 1939 to 1945. or the second time in a generation Scots go to war.  The war reaches the homefront as Scotland becomes a target for German bombing raids. Video: In Search of Scotland: A Century of Pain and Pleasure. bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/ modern_scotland/scotland_at_war/

1939 The Autograph Hound has Donald Duck (fictional clan McDuck) as an autograph hunter in Hollywood. Many celebrities from the 1930s are featured. This is the first cartoon where Donald Duck is featured in his blue sailor hat.

(fictional clan McDuck) Scots include Charlie McCarthy, George Joseph Somerville ‘slim’,

1939 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (released theatrically as Sherlock Holmes in the United Kingdom) is a 1939 mystery-adventure film.

1939 film poster. The film is an adaptation of the 1899 play Sherlock Holmes by William Gillette, though there is almost no resemblance in the plots.

1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.

1983 Donald Duck Presents was a television series. (fictional clan McDuck).

It was replaced by Donald’s Quack Attack in 1992.

1988 Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires province, Argentina         Saint Andrew Founded by Scottish immigrants in 1838 and named for the patron saint of Scotland.

1999 Matthew Steven Choate born. Many great grandson of James 1 and Anne of Kiev, Graham clan.

2009 Leap of Faith: Confronting the Origins of the Book of Mormon published. (Grant Clan) Robert Foster “Bob” Bennett (born September 18, 1933), United States Senator (Republican, Utah (1993-2011). Son of Frances Marion (née Grant) the daughter of Heber J. Grant, the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Bennett descends from Malcolm III Ceanmor King of Scots. 2 Henry 2^nd King England 2 John Lackland King 2 John le Strange to Margaret Warren 2 Anne Mainwaring 2 Edward Bulkeley 2 David Morgan 2 Heber J. Grant.

Leaving Washington: After 18 years in office, Bob Bennett looks to the future. Deseret News, Published: Sunday, December 19, 2010 Amy Choate-Nielsen.

2005 Louisiana and Hurricane Katrina. Three days earlier, August 28, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin (Democrat) ordered the first-ever mandatory evacuation of the city, calling Katrina “a storm that most of us have long feared.” Katrina’s storm surge led to 53 levee breaches in the federally built levee system protecting metro New Orleans and the failure of the 40 Arpent Canal levee. Nearly every levee in metro New Orleans was breached. the United States Coast Guard (USCG) was commended for their actions. Wikipedia.

A U.S. Coast Guardsman searches for survivors in New Orleans in the Katrina aftermath. Rear Admiral Robert Duncan was Commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District, headquartered in New Orleans. [clan Duncan].

2011 Movie tells story of young Joseph Smith and Book of Mormon. Deseret News. “Joseph Smith, Volume 1: Plates of Gold” is about the coming forth of the Book of Mormon amidst the personal hardships and trials in the life of young Joseph Smith Junior. The film also captures the courtship and early years of marriage between Joseph and Emma.

Joseph Smith Junior descended from the Mack family of Inverness Scotland. Thy type font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon was composed in a Glasgow Scotland foundry, and shipped across the Atlantic to New York City, up the Hudson River to the Erie Canal and across to Palmyra New York to the Printer E.B. Grandin.

2012   Humor. Montgomery was out working the field when a barnstormer landed.
”I’ll give ye an airplane ride for £5,” said the pilot.
”Sorry, cannae afford it,” replied Montie.
”Tell ye what,” said the pilot, “Ah’ll give ye and yer wife a free ride if ye promise not to yell. Otherwise it’ll be £10.”
So up they went and the pilot rolled, looped, stalled and did all he could to scare Montie. Nothing worked and the defeated pilot finally landed the plane. Turning around to the rear seat he said, “Gotta hand it to ye. For country folk ye sure are brave!”
”Aye,” said Montgomery “But ye nearly had me there when the wife fell oot!”  http://www.scotlandvacations.com/JokesPage1.htm

2017 Darkest Hour released at Telluride Film Festival, as a British thriller movie. The drama covers Winston Churchill’s (clan Montgomery) first months as Prime Minister, May through the summer of 1940 during the Battle of Britain. Although the movie attempts suspense, will the Nazi’s invade England? will England surrender? The actuality of victory was never in doubt. America had England’s back, providing hundreds of thousands of new rifles with ammo (sweeping around the Neutrality Act by swapping it for some islands). England and America had the first and second largest Navies in the world. Churchill directed the RAF to withhold enough squadrons from the Battle of France to defend against a Nazi cross channel invasion attempt. Churchill was the only anti-appeaser in the coalition War Government and had been ridiculed for a generation as a war monger, so he was hated by the rest of the government leaders when brought back as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1939, and even more so when Churchill became Prime Minister. The defense of England was Churchill’s sticking both of his thumbs in the eyes of the media, academia, political class, and pacifists in England. Churchill never contemplated surrender. Other Scots Characters included Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1^st Baron Ironside, GCB, CMG, DSO (6 May 1880 Edinburgh, Scotland – 22 September 1959), John Simon, 1^st Viscount Simon [Simon interrogated Rudolph Hess after his flight to Scotland.], Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1^st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland – 15 February 1970; Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, KCB, KBE, MVO (20 January 1883 – 2 January 1945) [clan Ramsay]; Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7^th Marques of Londonderry, KG, MVO, PC, PC (Ire) (13 May 1878 – 10 February 1949), styled Lord Stewart until 1884 and Viscount Castlereagh between 1884 and 1915 [Stewart clan],

Critics choice award, Darkest Hour, Best Actor Gary Oldman,  It takes the power of leadership to protect a Nation.

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