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Despite its label as an England side, the team which toured South Africa in 1891 contained several Scots.
Although he made several important concessions, Charles improved his own military position by securing the favour of the Scots that summer by promising the official establishment of Presbyterianism.
The building also contains several frescos depicting scenes from Scots history by William Brassey Hole in the entrance foyer, including a large example of Bruce marshalling his men at Bannockburn.
Elizabeth came under pressure from Parliament to execute Mary, Queen of Scots, to prevent any further attempts to replace her ; though faced with several official requests, she vacillated over the decision to execute an anointed queen.
* Dunfermline Abbey is founded – later to become the burial place of several Kings of Scots, including Robert the Bruce.
Indeed there were Scots, Germans and Dutch people inhabitating major towns of the area, as well as several Italian artists who had been " imported " to the lands of modern Belarus by the magnates.
The prince took part in several Scots campaigns, but despite these martial engagements, " all his father's efforts could not prevent his acquiring the habits of extravagance and frivolity which he retained all through his life ".
In the war that followed, the Scots persevered, even though the English seemed victorious at several points.
His interpreter and protégé Chief John Ross, the descendant of several generations of Cherokee women and Scots fur-traders, built a plantation and operated a trading firm and a ferry at Ross ' Landing ( Chattanooga, Tennessee ).
During March and early April, the Marquess of Newcastle fought several delaying actions as he tried to prevent the Scots from crossing the River Tyne and surrounding the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
In 1568 Shrewsbury was entrusted with the custody of Mary, Queen of Scots, and brought his prisoner to Chatsworth several times from 1570 onwards.
Being easier and cheaper to make than double-edged swords, backswords became the favored sidearm of common infantry, including irregulars such as the Highland Scots, who in Scottish Gaelic were called the claidheamh cuil ( back sword ), after one of several terms for the distinct types of weapons they used.
Trusted by the popular party, Pembroke was made governor of the Isle of Wight, and he was one of the representatives of the parliament on several occasions, notably during the negotiations at Uxbridge in 1645 and at Newport in 1648, and when the Scots surrendered Charles in 1647.
For example, the Scots used a spear formation known as the schiltron in several battles during the Wars of Scottish Independence including the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, and the Flemings used their geldon long spear to absorb the attack of French knights at the Battle of the Golden Spurs in 1302, before other troops in the Flemish formation counterattacked the stalled knights with Goedendags.
Among the first European settlers in the area were a group of Scots settled in Freehold Township in about 1682-85, followed several years later by Dutch settlers.
de Lacy eventually regained his title of Earl of Ulster in 1227, however the castle and its walled town were captured several more times following his death ( in 1242 ) and the town largely destroyed by the Scots in 1402.
Her first major work, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, was Mary, Queen of Scots ( 1969 ), which was followed by several other biographies, including Cromwell, Our Chief of Men ( 1973 ).
The Fremantle Markets are adjacent to several other historic buildings, including the Sail & Anchor Hotel ( which contains a microbrewery ), the Norfolk Hotel, the Warders Cottages, the Fremantle Technical School, and Scots Presbyterian Church.
On 3 October 1357, after several protracted negotiations with the Scots ' regency council, a treaty was signed at Berwick-upon-Tweed under which Scotland's nobility agreed to pay 100, 000 marks ( to be paid at the rate of 10, 000 marks per year ) as a ransom for their king.
While once referred to as Scotch-Irish by several researchers, that has now been superseded by the term Ulster Scots.
The Scots had several other ways of measuring precious metals and gems, but this was the common usage for gold and silver.
In the following years, successive Kings of Scots created several heirs-apparent Earl of Carrick.
Purdon was 14 years old when World War II began and he saw his older brother, Robert, enlist in the Royal Scots regiment and serve as a Commando for several years.
In earlier times, Mary, Queen of Scots stayed at the castle circa 1563 and granted several charters during her visit.

several and Northern
The film chronicles the relationship of two families in Civil War and Reconstruction-era America: the pro-Union Northern Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy Southern Camerons over the course of several years.
In February 2006, the Independent Monitoring Commission ( IMC ) blamed the CIRA for planting four bombs in Northern Ireland during the final quarter of 2005, as well as several hoax bomb warnings.
They also appear on the flags of the Australian state of Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, as well as the flag of Magallanes Region of Chile, the flag of Londrina ( Brazil ) and several Argentine provincial flags and emblems ( for example, Tierra del Fuego and Santa Cruz ).
This rate is a small fraction of the millions killed in the Second Sudanese Civil War and Cambodian Civil War, for example, but excludes several highly publicized conflicts, such as The Troubles of Northern Ireland and the struggle of the African National Congress in Apartheid-era South Africa.
The term derives most immediately from galun, galon in Old Northern French, but the usage was common in several languages, for example jale in Old French and gęllet ( bowl ) in Old English.
Italy has a smaller number of global multinational corporations than other economies of comparable size, but there is a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, as in the Northern " industrial triangle " ( Milan-Turin-Genoa ), where there is an area of intense industrial and machinery production, notably in their several industrial districts, which are the backbone of the Italian industry.
Karachi has several large industrial zones such as Karachi Export Processing Zone, SITE, Korangi, Northern Bypass Industrial Zone, Bin Qasim and North Karachi, located on the fringes of the main city.
During the Middle Ages, Parma became an important stage of the Via Francigena, the main road connecting Rome to Northern Europe ; several castles, hospitals and inns were built in the following centuries to host the increasing number of pilgrims who passed by Parma and Fidenza, following the Apennines via Collecchio, Berceto and the Corchia ranges before descending the Passo della Cisa into Tuscany, heading finally south toward Rome.
In one, typified by the Northern Jacana and some other ground-living birds, the female takes on much the same role as the male in a polygynous species, holding a large territory within which several males build nests.
Northern Africa includes Egypt, which had several distinct phases of development in pottery.
# Northern and southern circuits of Tian Shan ( later became Xinjiang province )-including several small semi-autonomous khanates such as Kumul Khanate
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry ( the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction in the United States often omits the and ), commonly known as simply the Scottish Rite, is one of several Rites of the worldwide fraternity known as Freemasonry.
Their arrival in Northern cities en masse, in addition to being followed by race riots in several large cities such as Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia, further stimulated white suburban migration.
Besides kaffir lime leaves, several other tree leaves are use in Thai cuisine such as cha-om, the young feathery leaves of the Acacia pennata tree, used cooked in omelettes, soups and curries and raw in salads of the Northern Thai cuisine.
During the period of Northern crusades in the beginning of the 13th century the fort of Tarbatu ( or Tharbata, Tartu ) was captured by the crusading Livonian Knights and recaptured by Estonians on several occasions.
In practice, several government departments and Ministers have responsibilities that cover England alone, with devolved bodies having responsibility for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ( for example-the Department of Health ), or responsibilities that mainly focus on England ( such as the Department for Education ).
* 535: Postulated volcanic eruption in the tropics which causes several years of abnormally cold weather, resulting in mass famine in the Northern Hemisphere.
Led by Colonels ( Xiaowei 校尉 ), the Northern Army consisted of five regiments, each composed of several thousand soldiers.
It is also Sardinia's economic and industrial hub, having one of the biggest ports in the Mediterranean sea, an international airport, and the 28th highest income rate in Italy, comparable to several Northern cities, such as Turin, Vicenza and Genoa.
The city also has several business parks, including l ' Arenas, Nice the Plain, Nice Méridia, Saint Isidore, and the Northern Forum.
In addition, the city features several shopping centres such as Nicetoile, Nice TNL, Nice Lingostière, Northern Forum, St-Isidore, the Trinity ( around the Auchan hypermarket ) and Cap3000 in Saint-Laurent-du-Var.
He also wrote for several journals, including The Northern Star, Robert Owen ’ s New Moral World and the Democratic Review newspaper.
* Northern Secondary School ( disambiguation ), the name of several high schools in Canada
As a result, one feature Hill integrated into the construction of the 1887 company headquarters ( the Great Northern General Office Building ) was barrel vaulted ceilings constructed of brick and railroad steel rails that held up a layer of sand several inches deep.

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