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Hace 4 días · In Scotland, John Erskine, Earl of Mar, nicknamed Bobbin' John, raised the Jacobite clans but proved to be an indecisive leader and an incompetent soldier. Mar captured Perth, but let a smaller government force under the Duke of Argyll hold the Stirling plain.
Hace 5 días · Erskine, John, Lord Erskine, son of John Erskine, 2nd Earl of Mar -, visits Italy and Rome, 148 Erskine (Erskyn), Thomas, Baron Erskine of Dirletowne, Captain of the King's Guard -, his allowance, 68 and n -, 69 (2), 70
Hace 3 días · The house next to the "Spaniards," and close by the entrance of Hampstead Heath, is called Erskine House, as having been the residence of the famous advocate, but less famous chancellor, Thomas Lord Erskine.
Hace 3 días · In objecting to the design of the Union Flag adopted in 1606, whereby the cross of Saint George surmounted that of Saint Andrew, a group of Scots took up the matter with John Erskine, 19th Earl of Mar, and were encouraged by him to send a letter of complaint to James VI, via the Privy Council of Scotland, which stated that the flag's ...
Hace 2 días · The Earl of Mar expected when it meets at Linlithgow, for the censure of some troublesome ministers, against whom the King has conceived greater offence than they are worthy of. The town is free from plague, &c.
Hace 4 días · Harman chronicles the heyday of the authority of nature through the long 18th century between Isaac Newton and James Hutton and then charts its decline starting with the Romantics down to Charles Darwin and John Ruskin.
Hace 5 días · There is scattered evidence of German rulers sending convicts to America in the 18th century, and I wonder to what degree their actions were connected to the development of a rational ‘Bevölkerungspolitik’ in that period.
