In the late 20th century the poetic tradition was revived, albeit often replacing the traditional Modern Scots orthographic practice with a series of contradictory idiolects.

It was concerned with damage done from damnum iniuria datum, " damage unlawfully inflicted ", a kind of a delict ( or tort ), albeit with differences from tort as known in modern common law systems and the Scots Law of Delict.

The agency publishes an English language newsletter, albeit with some token Scots, several times a year entitled The Ulster-Scot as a supplement to the Belfast News Letter.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

Within a few years the Scots, engaged in breaking the thick sod and stirring the rich soil of the valley, were joined by a group called Meurons.

Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

* 1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.

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.

There is no distinction made in Scotland between assault and battery ( which is not a term used in Scots law ), although, as in England and Wales, assault can be occasioned without a physical attack on another's person, as demonstrated in Atkinson v. HM Advocate wherein the accused was found guilty of assaulting a shop assistant by simply jumping over a counter wearing a ski mask.

Legend: ALEXANDER DEO RECTOR E ( T ) REX SCOTTORUM ( Alexander, by God ruler and king of the Scots )

His only legitimate child and son, by his second wife, Alexander III succeeded him as King of Scots.

The death of Alexander and the subsequent period of instability in Scotland was lamented in an early Scots poem recorded by Andrew of Wyntoun in his Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland.

* 1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.

* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

The French army also comprised a contingent of Scots commanded by Sir William Douglas.

The castle is an example of Scots Baronial architecture, and is classified by Historic Scotland as a category A listed building.

The architecture of the new house is considered to be somewhat dated for its time, being similar in style to the demolished castle of the 1830s, in contrast to the richer forms of Scots Baronial being developed by William Burn and others during the 1850s.

First used in 1637, it was never accepted, having been violently rejected by the Scots.

Legend has it that the Brecbennoch, was carried to the Battle of Bannockburn ( 24 June 1314 ) by the vastly outnumbered Scots army and the intercession of Columba helped them to victory.

The first curling club in the United States was established in 1830, and the game was introduced to Switzerland and Sweden before the end of the 19th century, also by Scots.

In law, corroboration refers to the requirement in some jurisdictions, such as in Scotland, that any evidence adduced be backed up by at least one other source ( see Corroboration in Scots law ).

Some of his pamphlets were purported to be written by Scots, misleading even reputable historians into quoting them as evidence of Scottish opinion of the time.

The Pope heeded the arguments contained in the Declaration, influenced by the offer of support from the Scots for his long-desired crusade if they no longer had to fear English invasion.

He exhorted Edward II in a letter to make peace with the Scots, but the following year was again persuaded by the English to take their side and issued six bulls to that effect.

A Short Account of Scots Divines, by him, was printed at Edinburgh in 1833, edited by James Maidment.

The Scots textbooks of the divine right of kings were written in 1597-98 by James VI of Scotland before his accession to the English throne.

When the militant prelates of York and Durham together with the Earl of Northumberland took their forces into the marches to relieve the fortress, the Scots swiftly retreated — a chronicle written a year later said that the Scots ' had fled wretchedly and ignominiously '— but the effects and the manner of the defeat and the loss of their expensive artillery was a major reversal for James both in terms of foreign policy and internal authority.

When considering pursuing a claim under delict, in Scots law, there are three criteria that have to be met ; firstly you have to establish that you were owed a duty of care, secondly you have to prove that that duty of care has been breached and lastly you have to show a causal link between the breach of care and the loss you have suffered.

The letter also mentions that the Scots placed their officers in the front line in medieval style who were vulnerable and killed, contrasting this loss of the nobility with the English great men who took their stand with the reserves and at the rear.

While moving from Scotland the division suffered the loss of 210 officers and men killed, and another 224 injured in the Quintinshill rail crash, near Gretna, that involved the 1 / 7th Royal Scots.

Despite the loss, the Scots won the competition overall and applauded Dean for his efforts who finished the tournament as top scorer.

The song, written in Scots, is also known as The Floo ' ers o ' the Forest ( are a ' wede away ) and describes the grief of women and children at the loss of their young men.

The War had seen an enormous sacrifice from the Scots with an estimated loss of around a 100, 000 men, according to the National War Memorial White Paper.

The Moraymen, unhappy with the gradual loss of their little kingdom's independence were calling for yet another rising against the King of Scots.

" Delict " as a word derives from the Latin " delictum " and as a branch of Scots Law revolves around the fundamental concept " Damnum Injuria Datum "-literally loss wrongfully caused.

At the Battle of Killiecrankie Lowland Scots who were veterans of the Dutch wars were overwhelmed by Highlanders of clan Cameron ; the Highlanders secured a complete victory by a charge which killed 2000 redcoats for the loss of 800 Highlanders.

Underneath all the high-sounding phrases of royal and papal letters and behind the more down-to-earth instructions to the envoys was the inescapable fact that Edward would have to desert his Flemish allies and leave them to the vengeance of their indignant suzerain, the king of France, in return for being given an equally free hand with the insubordinate Scots.

But John having died, the Pope and the English aristocracy changed their allegiance to his nine-year-old son, Henry, forcing the French and the Scots armies to return home.

To the right of the infantry Lord John Hay ’ s ‘ Scots Greys ’ also picked their way across the stream and charged the Régment du Roi within Autre-Eglise.

He then leads his army into battle against the stunned English, winning the Scots their freedom.

It was faced with the prospect of battling Anglo-Irish and Ulster Scots peoples in Ireland, who alongside their other Irish groups had raised their own volunteer army and threatened to emulate the American colonists if their conditions were not met.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Unique among all the one minute long films made by the Edison company, which recorded parts of the acts of variety performers for their Kinetoscope viewing machines, was The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

In the west were the Gaelic ( Goidelic )- speaking people of Dál Riata with their royal fortress at Dunadd in Argyll, with close links with the island of Ireland, from which they brought with them the name Scots.

Until the late 20th century Protestantism — especially of the Presbyterian variety — was a central value for most Scots, helping shape their identity and way of thinking.

However, not all Scots supported the Covenanter's taking arms against their King.

In 2009 Al-Fayed revealed that he was a supporter of Scottish independence from the United Kingdom, announcing to the Scots that " It's time for you to waken up and detach yourselves from the English and their terrible politicians ... whatever help is needed for Scotland to regain its independence, I will provide it ... when you Scots regain your freedom, I am ready to be your

The Flemish footmen at the Battle of the Golden Spurs met and overcame French knights in 1302, and the Scots held their own against heavily armored English invaders.

The naming of their children represented a break with the traditional Scots Regal names such as Malcolm, Cináed and Áed.

With the support of Prince Louis the French Heir and of King Alexander II of the Scots, they entered London in force on 10 June 1215, with the city showing its sympathy with their cause by opening its gates to them.

His response to the Queen Elizabeth I of England assuming governance of the Church of England included support of the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, and her supporters in their attempts to take over England " ex turpissima muliebris libidinis servitute ".

The Irish chief, Donal O ' Neil, for instance, later justified his support for the Scots to Pope John XXII by saying " the Kings of Lesser Scotia all trace their blood to our Greater Scotia and retain to some degree our language and customs.

* Ulster Scots people, an ethnic group in the Ulster province of Ireland who trace their roots to settlers from Scotland and northern England.

They would have been kept by the Scots and Picts, and used to help in providing part of their diet, namely hoofed game ( archaeological evidence likely supports this in the form of Roman pottery from around 1st Century AD found in Argyll which depicts the deerhunt using large rough hounds ( these can be viewed at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh ).

Some nations were noted for their long spears, including the Scots and the Flemish.

Meanwhile, Ponsonby's cavalry brigade, including the renowned Scots Greys, have chased the French all the way back to their lines but have become disorganized and their horses blown.