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Scottish Battlefields: 500 Battles That Shaped Scottish History
This is a painstaking survey of every Scottish battle from Mons Graupius AD 84 to Culloden 1746. Scotland has been formed by war to a greater extent than almost any other nation—war against the Romans, the Vikings, one another and, throughout the medieval and early modern eras, with England. Many of Scotland's battlefields have already been covered by modern developments, many more are at risk, often because their existence, let alone significance, is known to so few. If battles are "no more than the punctuation marks of history" it is not enough to know where these punctuation marks occurred, it is important to understand why.
331 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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October 27, 2021
Scottish Battlefields
500 important battles that shaped the course of Scotland's history, dented by its monarchy, politics and identity, provided in this book, compactly detailed to nicely serve as a reference book. Some exhausted and famously well-known events are juxtaposed with the fascinatingly unknown and mysterious events. It would be a good book for the amateur learner to use and reuse in order to retain significant times, dates, information, and names of certain battles.
500 important battles that shaped the course of Scotland's history, dented by its monarchy, politics and identity, provided in this book, compactly detailed to nicely serve as a reference book. Some exhausted and famously well-known events are juxtaposed with the fascinatingly unknown and mysterious events. It would be a good book for the amateur learner to use and reuse in order to retain significant times, dates, information, and names of certain battles.
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