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Hace 2 días · In Scotland, a Baron or Baroness is a rank of the ancient nobility of the Baronage of Scotland, a title of honour, and refers to the holder of a barony, formerly a feudal superiority or prescriptive barony attached to land erected into a free barony by Crown Charter, this being the status of a minor baron, recognised by the crown as noble, but ...
Hace 3 días · The Black Watch was an infantry unit born in the aftermath of the First Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. The senior Highland regiment, it went on to fight in nearly all the British Army's campaigns and is now part of The Royal Regiment of Scotland. 6 min read. Scotland Regiments and Corps.
Hace 3 días · The regiment fought as marines in the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-67) and then defended Tangier (now in Morocco) against Moorish attacks in the late 1660s. After returning home, it helped suppress the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, fighting at Sedgemoor (1685).
Hace 5 días · His murder in 1437 was part of an attempt to seize the throne for Walter Stewart, earl of Atholl, but the conspirators were executed and James’s young son succeeded him. James II (1437–60) was six years old at the time of his accession.
Hace 3 días · A 2nd Battalion was raised in 1804. This spent most of its existence in Ireland, before disbanding in 1816. After fighting in the Fifth Cape Frontier War (1818-19), the regiment returned to Britain in 1821.
Hace 5 días · The principal acts of the general assembly, convened at Edinburgh, May 22, 1834. I. Sess. 1, May 22, 1834.—The King's Commission to the Right Honourable Lord Belhaven. II. Sess. 1, May 22, 1834.—His Majesty's Letter to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Hace 2 días · Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC (/ ˈ h juː m /; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 until 1963, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
