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The Battle of Prestonpans was the first significant conflict in the second Jacobite Rising. The battle took place on September 21, 1745.

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The Battle of Glen Shiel (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Ghleann Sheile) was a battle in Glen Shiel, in the West Highlands of Scotland on 10 June 1719 between the British government and an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards, resulting in a victory for the British forces. It was the last close engagement of...

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Of the Barton Brothers, the most noted was Andrew who owned a ship named 'The Lion' which was one of the largest vessels of the time.

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During the reigns of the successors to Bruce, there are occasional glimpses of Scottish vessels engaging on the high seas, but it was not until the reign of James 1V that a serious attempt was made to build a Scottish Navy..........

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During the course of the wars between Scotland and England, the two greatest victories of the Scots was at Stirling Bridge and Bannockburn, however the third greatest victory of the Scots was not fought in Scotland but in France, at Bauge in Normany......

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February 23/24th 1303. The Battle of Rosslyn. Sir John Seagrave, King Edward 1st's Governor of 'The Province of Scotland' wanted to marry Lady Margaret Ramsay of Dalhousie, but she had no interest in Seagrave and married Sir Henry St, Clair of Rosslyn. A furious Seagrave, when he heard...

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BATTLE OF RENFREW 1164. In the year 1164, Somerled, the Lord of the Isles determined to overthrow the King of Scotland and seize the Kingdom for himself. He collected an army of his own men reinforced by the fighting men from Man and the north of Ireland and with a fleet of a hundred...

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BRUNANABURH 937 AD For three years, a conferation of Scots, Strathclyde Britons and the Northumbrian Danes waged a war against Athelstan, the most powerful of the Saxon Kings of England. The allied tribes were eventually defeatewd at Brunanburh, which is thought to have been somewhere...

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Scotland at this time was divided into several Kingdoms. Pictland, between the Forth and the Spey, Dalriada, represented today as Argyll and Strathclyde held by the Britons and stretching from the Clyde to the Solway. The Western Isles were in the hands of the Norwegian ruler of Orkney, while...

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It has never actually been determind where exactly this battle took place but it was somewhere between the the Tay and the Pentland Firth. Skene gave the location as at the Hill of Blair and this is thought to be fairly accurate. Agricola, the Roman general ventured beyond the Clyde in 80...