September 5 – 1187 – Louis VIII of France (d. 1226) born. Ancestor of Kings and Queens of Scots from James 1st Stewart 1430.

Coronation of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile at Reims in 1223; a miniature from the Grandes Chroniques de France, painted in the 1450s, (Bibliothèque nationale)

27 miles from Reims is the Oise-Aisne American military cemetery, one and a half kilometers (a mile) east of Fere-en-Tardenois, France, with 6,012 souls, about 40% of whom have Scots ancestry. http://blackquillandink.com/?p=15894) Most lost their lives while fighting in this vicinity in 1918 during World War I. Their headstones, aligned in long rows on the 36.5-acre site, rise in a gentle slope from the entrance to the memorial at the far end. The burial area is divided into four plots by wide paths lined by trees and beds of roses; at the intersection are a circular plaza and the flagpole. The memorial is a curving colonnade, flanked at the ends by a chapel and a map room. It is built of rose-colored sandstone with white trim bearing sculptured details of wartime equipment. The chapel contains an altar of carved stone. Engraved upon its Walls of the Missing are 241 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. The map room contains an engraved and colored wall map portraying the military operations in this region during 1918.

1235 – Henry I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1165) died. (ancestor of Queen Marie of Guelders wife of James 2nd Stewart King of Scots).

1296 sometime in September Cailean Mór (died ≥ 1296), also known as Sir Colin Campbell, or “Colin the Great” was killed by the MacDougalls at the “Red Ford” on the borders of Loch Awe and Lorne at a place known as the String of Lorne. He appears (c. 1293) in the Newbattle Registrum, where he is called the son of “Gylascop Kambel” (“Gilleasbaig Caimbeul”), obtaining from Sir Robert Lindsay the estate of Symington; the document, which has James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland, Lord of Kyle, as one of Cailean’s pledgers, guarantees continued payment of rent to Newbattle Abbey. In 1295, Cailean appears as a witness in a charter of James Stewart granted to Paisley Abbey, and in 1296 appears again in the Paisley Registrum attesting the marriage of James to the sister of Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster. Cailean also witnessed a charter of Maol Choluim, the contemporary Mormaer or Earl of Lennox, and in another Lennox charter in which he is granted lands in Cowal by John Lamont, one of Maol Chaluim’s vassals. Sir Colin’s father was Gilleasbaig, a knight and lord of the estates of Menstrie and Sauchie in Clackmannanshire, mother was Afraig, a daughter of Cailean mac Dhonnchaidh probable father of Niall, Earl of Carrick.

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Five and a half centuries later, angry at the success of the Church of Jesus Christ missionaries in Clackmannan, a mob burned Joseph Smith, Prophet of the Restoration, in effigy in 1842.

Lamont Motto: NE PARCUS NEC SPERNAS.”Neither spare nor dispose”].
[“Neither spare nor scorn”].Badge: crab-apple tree,[ trefoil or dryas    Chief: The Rev. Father Peter Lamont of that Ilk

Crest: A dexter hand couped at the wrist Proper

1396 sometime in September · Battle of the North Inch, a staged battle between the Chattan Confederation and the “Clan Kay” in September 1396. 30 men were selected to represent each side in front of spectators that included King Robert III of Scotland and his court, on land that is now the North Inch park in Perth, Scotland.

1420 Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, is mentioned in Androw of Wyntoun’s Chronicale as dead proves that the Chronicale was finished some time after 3 September, 1420.

1645 English parliament voted the army’s arrears. Tytler’s Britannica.

1750 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (d. 1774).

Fergusson Crest: Upon a chapeau Gules furred Ermine, a bee on a thistle Proper. Motto: DULCIUS EX ASPERIS. [From Latin: “Sweeter after difficulties”]. Badge: little sunflower Chief: Sir Charles Fergusson of Kilkerran, 9th Bt

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.

1774 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War. In August, Admiral Sir Thomas Graves led a fleet from New York to attack de Grasse’s fleet. Graves did not realize how large the French fleet was, and neither did Cornwallis. The British fleet was defeated by de Grasse’s fleet in the Battle of the Chesapeake, and forced to fall back to New York.

1981 October 16 issue. Battle of Virginia Capes. American Bicentennial.

On September 5, Washington learned of the arrival of de Grasse’s fleet off the Virginia Capes. De Grasse debarked his French troops to join Lafayette, and then sent his empty transports to pick up the American troops. Washington made a visit to his home, Mount Vernon, on his way to Yorktown.

1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac’s forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort’s outhouses.

1862 – American Civil War: the Potomac River is crossed at White’s Ford in the Maryland Campaign.

1887  Andrew Arbuckle, (September 5, 1887 – September 21, 1938) was an American stage and film actor, of Scottish descent.

1905 Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) finally organized in 1892; one of their main goals was to preserve the Alamo. DRT as custodian of the Alamo and convent, received official control on September 5, 1905. Siege at The Alamo Mission San Antonio, Texas Republic (February 23 – March 6, 1836) ends at the Battle of the Alamo on March 6 with list of Scots defenders. Restored in 1847 by Colonel James Harvey Ralston. Then Judge Ralston, defended Joseph Smith in Hancock County Illinois against extradition to Missouri.

1907 postcard entreated citizens to Save the Alamo.

1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.

1985 August 26. “The Battle of Marne, France, Harvey T. Dunn” charcoal. illustrator with the American Expeditionary Forces. Following the war he established the Dunn School of Illustration at Leonia, NJ.

 

1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.

2016 Republican nominee Donald Trump (Clan McLeod) told reporters aboard his campaign plane Monday that he plans to participate in all three presidential debates.

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