September 4 – 650 Birinus Bishop of Dorchester Oxon Apostle of Wessex, feast day.

1241 Alexander III of Scotland (d. 1286) born.

Coronation of King Alexander on Moot Hill, Scone. He is being greeted by the ollamh rígh, the royal poet, who is addressing him with the proclamation “Benach De Re Albanne” (= Beannachd Dé Rígh Alban, “God Bless the King of Scotland”); the poet goes on to recite Alexander’s genealogy. By Alexander’s side is Maol Choluim II, Earl of Fife holding the sword.

1260 – The Sienese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti. A romance between two of the competing families becomes the plot for the romantic tragedy of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, 340 years later. Guelph became the family of the Dukes of Bavaria, then allied with Hohenstaufens for the British crown in 1714, with George of Hanover. Then in 1827, John Galt, Scotsman, founded the city of Guelph, county of Wellington, State of Ontario, Canada.

American military cemetery in Sicily Italy, with 7861 souls, 40% of whom with Scots ancestry, as we suppose. www.abmc.gov/cemeteries

1526 – Battle of Linlithgow Bridge James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arra supported Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus against James’ nephew, John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox slain by Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, in 1526 at but on the escape of King James V   from the Douglases, Hamilton received Bothwell from Angus’s forfeited estates.

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Linlithgow is on the south shore of the Firth of Forth between Falkirk and Edinburgh.

1571 Raid of Stirling (tg32-146) Kirkaldy devised an enterprise, by which, if successful, he would have put a complete stop to the proceedings of the King’s Parliament, nay, to the civil war itself. He sent for Buccleuch and Fairniehirst, already noticed as zealous partisan of Mary, desiring them to bring a large party of their best horsemen, and joined with the Lord Claud Hamilton, with a detachment of infantry. The whole was guided by a man of the name of Bell, a native of Stirling. On the 4th of September, 1571, five hundred men, entered Stirlng, at four in the morning, without even a dog barking at them. They then raised the alarm, crying out, “God and the Queen! think on the Archbishop of Saint Andrews! all is our own!” The Queensmen disbursed for plunder and were attacked and surrendered. Morton out, Earl of Mar in. Death of Lennox.

The previous map for 1526 has Stirling a few miles west of Linlithgow.

1648 Ordinance for granting a Pardon House of Commons, Hugh, anceftor of the Cochranes of Fernguflee, alfo a great loyalist, who firft fervid in the wars abroad under the great general Guftavus Adolphus, was afterwards a colonel in king Charles I, his army, and was particularly excepted from pardon by the parliament, anno 1648.

James Boswell of Auchinleck, eldest son of John, married Marion Crawford, a daughter of the ancient family of Kerse,

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and had six sons and several daughters. His three youngest sons entered the service of Gustavus Adolphus, and after fighting in his wars settled in Sweden, where their posterity still exists (early 19th century).

1651 Battle of Worcester collection of prisoners. Most of the few thousands of the Royalists who escaped during the night were easily captured by Lilburne and Mercer, or by the militia which watched every road in Yorkshire and Lancashire. Even the country people brought in scores of prisoners, for officers and men alike, stunned by the suddenness of the disaster, offered no resistance.

Map Battle of Worcester. Around 8,000 Scottish prisoners were deported to New England, Bermuda, and the West Indies to work for landowners as indentured labourers. Parliamentary casualties numbered in the low hundreds.

Bermuda half pence, Hamilton Harbor 1936.

Charles II escaped after many adventures, including one famous incident where he hid from a Parliamentarian patrol in an oak tree in the grounds of Boscobel House.

 

1685 Anne Cochrane (baptized 04.09.1685, died young)

1745 – Charles Edward (Bonnie prince Charlie) could allot to [TG76-112] supply his finances, arrange the campaign, and discipline his army.

1752 did not occur in England, Ireland or British America, but it did in Scotland! The English civil year started on 25 March until 1752 (Scotland having changed to 1 January in 1600). Eleven days did not occur in September 1752 in both England and Scotland, as well as other British controlled territories – America, (when the day after 2 September was 14 September), so as to bring the British Empire fully in line with the Gregorian calendar and most of Europe.

1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.

1862 – Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.

1930 William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill (1893–1965) set a new record by flying a de Havilland DH.60 Moth seaplane (G-AAVB) 1,040 miles non-stop from Welsh Harp to Stockholm in 12 hours.

1951 Mrs Edward Wetzel (Lura Marie Thompson) born.

1937 The Edge of the World reported the evacuation of St Kilda. The movie was filmed on the island of Foula in the Shetland Islands to the north of Scotland.

DVD cover. The de-population of the isolated, outer islands of Scotland as, one by one, the younger generation leaves for the greater opportunities offered by the mainland,

 

The Shetlands are north of Orkneys.

The title is a reference to the phrase Ultima Thule, coined by Virgil (Georgics 1:30).

Thule as Tile on the Carta Marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus, where it is shown located to the north west of the Orkney Islands, with a “monster, seen in 1537”, a whale (“balena”), and an orca nearby.

 

The Serenity of the Outer Hebrides Smithsonian.com

St. Kilda, a World Heritage site for both its natural and cultural value, holds archaeological evidence from the Bronze Age as well as Viking visits.

THE OLD MAN OF HOY, over the seas, and invites to Ultima Thule,. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P.237.

 

 

1939 HM Queen Mary, Cunard Line, built Clydebank Scotland, converted to troopship. Queen Mary arrives in New York.

1947 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back. Fictional Scots heroes. “Bulldog” Drummond finds one of the two women claiming to be the real heiress.

2005 Louisiana Hurricane Katrina’s recovery. District and Commander of Maritime Defense Command Eight, headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. As District Commander, RADM Duncan was responsible for U.S. Coast Guard operations covering 26 states, over 1,200 miles of coastline and 10,300 miles of inland waterways from Florida to Mexico and including the entire navigable lengths of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and Tennessee River Systems. RADM Duncan, a 1972 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy, earned his Master of Science degree from the State University of New York, Maritime College in 1978. Upon commissioning, RADM Duncan served as a Deck Watch Officer (DWO) in USCGC CITRUS. He was next assigned to the Coast Guard Third District operations staff in New York City, followed by a tour as Executive Officer of USCGC HORNBEAM, homeported in Cape May, New Jersey. Following graduation from Boston College Law School, with the degree of Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, RADM Duncan served as the Assistant Legal Officer on the staff of the Commander, First Coast Guard District, in Boston.

2009 Valhalla Rising film was shot entirely in Scotland.

2017 Labor Day. President Trump (clan McLeod) “We are building our future with American hands, American labor, American iron, aluminum and steel. Happy ‪#LaborDay!”

 

 

 

 

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