September 20 – 1319 Battle of Myton nicknamed the Chapter of Myton or The White Battle because of the number of clergy involved, was a major engagement in the First Scottish War of Independence, fought in Yorkshire.

1415 Owen Glendower The last independent prince of Wales died on September 20, 1415.  Glendower led a Welsh revolt, beginning in 1400, which began when neighbor Reginald Grey, 3^rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, failed to notify Glendower of Henry IV’s call to his Scottish campaign in 1400, then disingenuously charged Glendower with treason.  By the time Henry IV learned of the rebellion, Henry IV had difficulty quelling it. Walter Scott references Owen Glendower, and the setting in 1400, in a publication titled “Scotland”, by Sir Walter Scott, In 1400, Henry [IV] therefore summoned the whole military force of England to meet him at York, and published an arrogant manifesto, in which Henry vindicated the antiquated claim of supremacy, which had been so long in abeyance, and, assuming the tone of lord paramount, commanded the Scottish king, with his prelates and nobles, to meet him at Edinburgh and render homage. Of course no one attended upon that summons, excepting the new proselyte March, who met Henry at Newcastle, and was received to the English fealty. But if Henry’s boast of subjecting Scotland was a bravado inconsistent with his usual wisdom, his warfare, on the contrary, was marked by a degree of forbearance and moderation too seldom the characteristic of an English invader. Penetrating as far as Edinburgh, he extended his especial protection to the canons of Holyrood, from whom his father, John of Gaunt, had experienced shelter, and in general spared religious houses. The castle of Edinburgh was gallantly held out by the Duke of Rothsay, aided by the skill and experience of his father-in-law, the Earl of Douglas. Albany commanded a large army, which, according to the ancient Scottish policy, hovered at some distance from the English host.

Edinburgh is about 50 miles from the River Tweed and the English border.

     The Scots had wisely resolved upon the defensive system of war which had so frequently saved Scotland. But they could not forbear some of the bravado of the time. The Duke of Rothsay wrote to Henry that, to avoid the effusion of Christian blood, he was willing to rest the national quarrel upon the event of a combat of one, two, or three nobles on every side. Henry laughed at this sally of youthful vivacity, and, in answer, expressed his wonder how Rothsay should think of saving Christian blood at the expense of shedding that of the nobility, who, it was to be hoped, were Christians as well as others. Albany also would have his gasconade. Albany sent a herald to Henry to say that, if he would stay in his position near Edinburgh for six days, Albany would do battle with Henry to the extremity. The English king gave his mantle and a chain of gold to the herald, in token that he joyfully accepted the challenge. But Albany had no purpose of keeping his word; and Henry found nothing was to be won by residing in a wasted country to beleaguer an impregnable rock. He raised the siege and retired into England, where the rebellion of Owen Glendower soon after broke out. A truce of twelve months and upward took place between the kingdoms.’ 16th-century painting of Henry IV, caption HENRICVS IIII by unknown artist.

• Owain `Glyndwr’ ap GRUFFYDD aka Owain GLENDOWER (GLYNDWRDWY); (led Wales in alliance with York against Lancaster; crowned Prince of WALES (King of BRITONS)) Born:  abt. 1353    Died:  abt. 1415. HRH Charles’s 17-Great Grandfather.       PM Churchill’s 17-Great Grandfather.       Lady Diana’s 18-Great Grandfather.       PM Cameron’s 17-Great Grandfather.       HRH Albert II’s 19-Great Grandfather.  

http://fabpedigree.com/s066/f166075.htm

1643 First Battle of Newbury.

1697 Treaty of Rijswijk (Dutch republic) ended the Nine Years’ War, or War of the Grand Alliance. Louis XIV recognised William Stewart as Willian 3^rd King of England, 2^nd of Scotland, and undertook to give no further assistance to James II (VII) Stuart.

Louis XIV of France was William 2^nd‘s life-long enemy; an uneasy peace agreed in 1697 was soon broken. The Grand Alliance was Britain, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the United Provinces.

• Louis XIV (King) of FRANCE`the Sun King’; eponym of Louisiana; (his 72-year reign is the longest ever of any European King) Born:  1638    Died:  1715. Bourbon.

1711 [Robert Miller II of St. Quivox] ordained 20th September, 1711 as minister of St. Quivox, near Ayr.

St Quivox Parish Church, Auchincruive. www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/

St. Quivox’ earlier name was Sanquhar-in-Kyle; its church was dedicated to St. Kevoc. But confusion arose because Sanquhar-in-Nithsdale, made famous by its martyrs of the Killing Time (1685-1688), was better known; the parish name was changed to St. Kevoc’s, and became corrupted to St. Quivox.

From 1221 until 1239, the church had belonged to a nearby Gilbertian priory of St. Mary at Dalmulin, founded by Walter, 3^rd High Steward of Scotland, with brethren of the Order of St. Gilbert of Sempringham, from Sixel in Lincolnshire. (The order admitted both men and women, though so far as is known there were no women at this, its only establishment in Scotland.) In 1238 when relations between England and Scotland were in one of their periodic crises, the Gilbertians removed themselves south of the border. Their priory then became, and remained until the Reformation (1560), a cell of Paisley Abbey.

Paisley is at the top , next to Glasgow, with the map showing Ayr.

1745 preparation for the Battle of Prestonpans. During the night of 20t h September 1745, the Jacobites made use of a path through the marsh to come up on the left flank of the royal army. Generals: Prince Charles, Lord George Murray (Jacobite) and Sir John Cope (Hanoverian).   A year later, Stuart embarks for France. Prestonpans is a small town to the east of Edinburgh, Scotland in East Lothian.

1746 Lochiel embarked the ship, along with Charles Edward Stuart on the 20^th , as did near one hundred others of the relics of his party, whom the tidings had brought to the spot where the vessel lay.  Prince Charles Edward Stuart

Cluny MacPherson remained behind, and continued to skulk in his own country for several years, being the agent by means of whom Charles Edward long endeavoured to keep up a correspondence with his faithful Highlanders. [TG84-373]. The map shows the location of clan MacPherson along the valley of the River Spey in Inverness.

1777 Battle of Paoli, Pennsylvania. 42^nd Foot, the Black Watch (the Royal Highland Regiment)
 The Light Infantry were followed by the 44^th Foot and, in a third wave, by the 42^nd Highlanders.

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 signature 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

4^th   form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in 2^nd Nephi. Grandin building Palmyra New York.

1830 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Fayette, New York. (clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots), Doctrine and Covenants 30. Sometime in September. Proclaim my gospel, as with the voice of a trump.

1854 Battle of Alma, Crimean War, Ukraine. Black Sea.  The Scots Fusilier Guards Colour Party leads the regiment’s attack on the Great Russian Battery.  Lieutenant Lindsay carries the Queen’s Colour; Lieutenant Thistlethwayte carries the Regimental Colour.  Of the party, Lieutenant Lindsay, Sergeants McKechnie and Knox and Private Reynolds were awarded the Victoria Cross.  The Queen’s Colour received 24 bullet holes and the staff was shot in half : Lady Butler’s painting after hanging in Lord Wantage’s Victoria Cross Gallery and is now displayed in the Officers’ Mess of 1s t Battalion Scots Guards.

Officer of the 79^th Cameron Highlanders

Coldstream Guards storm the Great Russian Battery

93^rd Highlanders advancing to attack the Russians

42^nd Highlanders storming the Alma Heights, led by Sir Colin Campbell. The First Division moved forward to the River Alma with General Bentinck’s Guards Brigade on the right and Sir Colin Campbell’s Highland Brigade on the left.

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The two brigades were formed in accordance with precedent with the senior regiments on the right within each brigade, the next senior regiment on the left and the junior regiment in the centre: from right to left the Grenadier Guards, the Scots Fusilier Guards, the Coldstream Guards, 42^nd Highlanders, 91^st Highlanders and the 79^th Highlanders.

Coldstream Guards storming
. 21^st Royal Scots Fusiliers.

http://www.britishbattles.com/crimean-war/alma.htm

1953 The Number one dime, published, and is the first coin that Scrooge McDuck ever earned or produced. The dime is a key plot in stories featuring Magica De Spell, a character invented by Carl Barks, as the main villain. Magica believes that by stealing the first coin earned by the richest duck in the world and melting it down to a magical amulet, Magica can gain the power of the ancient King Midas, so that everything she touches becomes gold and she can be rich beyond her wildest dreams. This will only work if the coin indeed belongs to the richest person in the world at the time, and is the first coin that person earned, is crucial, and is made into a plot point in some stories.

Story by Don Rosa. The number one dime is an U.S. 1875 Seated Liberty dime. Scrooge earned the silver dime in 1877 in his hometown of Glasgow, when he started working as a shoeshine boy on his tenth birthday.[21] Before that it belonged to Howard Rockerduck (the father of John D. Rockerduck). The customer who paid it to him, a ditch-digger called Burt, “cheated” Scrooge (Seated Liberty dimes were discontinued in 1891). In reality, Scrooge’s father, Fergus McDuck, gave Burt the dime specifically for paying Scrooge for his services.

1983 Mindy Jo Choate (nee Bittle) born. (Choate includes clans Abernethy, Blair, Cairns, Dunbar, Erskine, Fraser, Giffard, Hay, Jardyn, Kirkpatrick, Lumsden, Morton, Ogilvie, Rutherford, Spreull, Turnbull, Vaux, Wallace).

2005 January Rear Admiral Robert F. Duncan, (clan Duncan) was appointed by Secretary Ridge and served as the Federal Coordinator for the Iraqi Overseas Registration and Voting for the southern region of the United States. In August and September 2005, Rear Admiral Duncan led the Coast Guard’s rescue and recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. http://www.clan-duncan.co.uk/admiral-robert-duncan.html

George W. Bush, (clan McLeland) 43^rd President 2001-09: 4^thgreat grandmother, Catherine Walker (nee McLelland), was Scot.   Bush is greeted by U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2005 aboard   the USS Iwo Jima in New Orleans, La., joined by Rear Admiral Robert Duncan and U.S. Army Lt. General Russel Honore, right. White House photo by Eric Draper.

Admiral Duncan was commended by President Bush and the United States Senate. On behalf of the President, Secretary Chertof awarded Admiral Duncan the Distinguished Service Medal, noting this historic Disaster in our nation’s history. Admiral Duncan was commended by Concurrent Resolution of the Louisiana Senate and House of Representatives. He was awarded the Legion of Merit, and Proclamations by the City Council of New Orleans, the American Spirit Gold Medallion, and the City of New Orleans highest recognition; the Sieur de Bienville Founder’s Award.

2014 ’’ In our opinion: The Scots have set an example for how to conduct an election.’’

A Saltire and Union Jack flag hang side by side on a building in Edinburgh, Scotland, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. Scottish voters have rejected independence and decided that Scotland will remain part of the United Kingdom. The result announced early Friday was the one favored by Britain’s political leaders, who had campaigned hard in recent weeks to convince Scottish voters to stay. Those who supported — and likely still support — Scottish independence from the U.K. can no longer be dismissed as a fringe group. the promises the “Yes” camp have secured from Parliament are significant, and they will greatly increase Scotland’s ability to steer its own ship of state. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865611387/The-Scots-have-set-an-example-for-how-to-conduct-an-election.html?pg=all

2015 DONALD TRUMP (clan MacLeod, Tong, Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland) IS SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY (LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN HIM)

New York

http://ilovemyfreedom.org/donald-trump-is-saving-our-democracy-like-youve-never-seen-him/

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