Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

Although the Romans inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, two-thirds of the Caledonian army escaped and hid in the Scottish marshes and Highlands, ultimately preventing Agricola from bringing the entire British island under his control.

Although Scottish Labour won more seats than any other party, they did not have a majority in Parliament to allow them to form an Executive without the help of a smaller party.

Although Irish and Manx are often referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic ( as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages ), the use of the word Gaelic is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when referring to language, only ever refer to these languages, whereas Scots has come to refer to a Germanic language, and therefore " Scottish " can refer to things not at all Gaelic.

Although James had tried to get the Scottish Church to accept some of the High Church Anglicanism of his southern kingdom, he met with limited success.

Although not reaching its 1970s peak in Westminster elections, the SNP had more success in the Scottish Parliamentary elections with their system of mixed member proportional representation.

Although there is no strict size definition, a small loch is often known as a lochan ( so spelled also in Scottish Gaelic ; in Irish it is spelled lochán ).

Although Scott had attained celebrity through his poetry, he soon tried his hand at documenting his researches into the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders in prose fiction – stories and novels – at the time still considered aesthetically inferior to poetry ( above all to such classical genres as the epic or poetic tragedy ) as a mimetic vehicle for portraying historical events.

Although most lodges throughout the English-speaking world do not confer the Scottish Rite versions of the first three degrees, there are a handful of lodges in New Orleans and in several other major cities that have traditionally conferred the Scottish Rite version of these degrees.

Although now a single kingdom, certain aspects of the former independent kingdoms remained separate, in line with the terms in the Treaty of Union: Scottish and English law remained separate, as did the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the Anglican Church of England.

Although he was a minor member of the Scottish nobility, little is known for certain of William Wallace's family history.

Although vastly outnumbered, the Scottish army routed the English army.

Although many observers from the 1880s onward predicted that Yankee politicians would be no match for new generations of ethnic politicians, the presence of Yankees at the top tier of modern American politics was typified by Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, and by Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean ( as well, to some observers, by 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Forbes Kerry, descendant through his mother, of the Scottish Forbes family, which emigrated to Massachusetts the 1750s ).

Although an Englishman, Josselyn, then a student at Glasgow University, was a Scottish Nationalist.

Although strategically successful and, historically at least, " a successful piece of policy making ", Isabella's Scottish policy was by no means popular and contributed to the general sense of discontent with the regime.

Although they partially retrieved their fortunes with victories later in the year in the south of England, the loss of the North was to prove a fatal handicap the next year, when they tried unsuccessfully to link up with the Scottish Royalists under Montrose.

Although initially cleared of any involvement in the murder, he was offered up by the conspirators and convicted at a show trial, after which he was executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered before each of his limbs was nailed to the gates of a different Scottish town.

Although Cleutin seems to have been universally popular, the resentment of the Scottish nobility at these appointments fuelled the coming crisis.

( Although Cruden appears to have made an error in writing this, since his source, Holinshed, does not date Borthwick that early, and Caldwell agrees ) By 1511 Edinburgh was the principal foundry in Scotland, supplanting Stirling Castle, with Scottish and European smiths working under Borthwick, who by 1512 was appointed " master melter of the king's guns ".

Although discredited by many historians and archaeologists, some townspeople continue to claim that Westford was once a stopping point for Scottish Earl Henry Sinclair's surverying expedition to Greenland, Iceland, Nova Scotia, and Massachusetts which is said to have occurred in 1398, nearly 90 full years before Columbus made his discovery of The Americas.

Although he for the moment managed to secure Norwegian control of the islands off the northern and western shores of Great Britain, he fell ill and died when wintering in Orkney following some military engagements with the expanding Scottish kingdom.

Although traditionally having had ties with the community of Norse settlers in northern Scotland, Scottish rulers had increasingly asserted their sovereignty over the entire mainland.

Although recent research from brewing historian Ron Pattinson shows a lack of evidence for peat smoked malt being used by any Scottish breweries, American craft brewers often add peat smoked malt in their versions of Scotch ale.

Although they were clearly preceded by the Mi ' kmaq and Acadian peoples, credit for the first permanent white settlement at Miramichi is often granted to Scottish settlers, led by William Davidson.

Although Amalaric eventually became king in his own right, the political continuity of the Visigothic kingdom was broken ; " Amalaric's succession was the result of new power structures, not old ones ," as Heather describes it.

Although the kingdom of Essex was one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy, its history is not well documented.

Although London ( and the rest of Middlesex ) was lost by the East Saxons in the 8th century, the bishops of London continued to exert spiritual authority over Essex as a kingdom, shire and county until 1845.

Although it is not directly stated in the Book of Hosea, there can be little doubt that he exercised his ministry in the kingdom of the Ten Tribes.

Although human infanticide has been widely studied, the practice has been observed in many other species of the animal kingdom since it was first seriously studied by Yukimaru Sugiyama.

Although the kingdom had essentially been restored, the Lombard War continued to occupy the kingdom's nobility.

Although it was only a matter of time before Acre also fell, the end of the crusader kingdom was actually instigated in 1290 by newly-arrived crusaders, who rioted in Acre and attacked the city's Muslim merchants.

Although the dynasty ended, the kingdom of Kanem-Bornu survived.

Although Mellitus fled, there does not seem to have been any serious persecution of Christians in the East Saxon kingdom.

Although the okapi was unknown to the Western world until the 20th century, it was possibly depicted 2, 500 years ago on the façade of the Apadana, at Persepolis, as a gift from the Ethiopian procession to the Achaemenid kingdom.

Although the Indo-Greeks lost part of the Gangetic plain, their kingdom lasted nearly two centuries.

Although Wessex had now effectively been subsumed into the larger kingdom which its expansion had created, like the other former kingdoms, it continued for a time to have a distinct identity which periodically found renewed political expression.

Although this is discouraged by both the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, there are some five thousand such names in use in more than one kingdom.

Although the kingdom had been crushed and its high nobility executed, the Ottomans nonetheless allowed for the preservation of Bosnia's identity by incorporating it as an integral province of the Ottoman Empire with its historical name and territorial integrity-a unique case among subjugated states in the Balkans.

Although Kong became a prosperous center of agriculture, trade, and crafts, ethnic diversity and religious discord gradually weakened the kingdom.

Although it was not the only town to have been the capital, it was established by King Egbert as the main city in his kingdom in 827.

Although the emperor appointed the Chancellor of each kingdom, kings appointed all the remaining civil officials in their fiefs.

Although dead by the time the Vandal kingdom was overthrown in 534, he nevertheless played a key role in that event.

Although Sardinian by name, the kingdom had its capital in Turin, in mainland Italy, where the Savoys resided.

Although Artobarzanes was the first born of Darius, Xerxes became heir and next king through the influence of Atossa, who had great authority in the kingdom, as Darius loved her, of all of his wives, most.

Although he had rejected the offer of the kingdom of Poland in 1795 by the lower House of the Polish Parliament, he could not refuse a Polish title a second time.

Although the published classification deliberately did not use formal taxonomic ranks, other sources have treated each of the six as a separate kingdom.

Although aggressive encounters are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, with often high stakes, most are resolved through posturing, displays and trials of strength.