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  • effect on May 1, 1707. On this date, the Scottish Parliament and the English ... Scotland's economy thrived and Scottish men and women played significant ...
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  • During the English Civil War (1642–1649), the English parliament ... The Scottish Commissioners who were present at the assembly were satisfied ...
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  • Hay was born in 1838, in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, raised ... Hay's diary and writings during the Civil War are basic historical ...
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  • Sir William Wallace (c. 1270 – August 23, 1305) was a Scottish knight ... To the Scottish people, Wallace was the exemplification of undying ...
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  • the Church's sanction. He was born in a war-torn society plagued by armed ... of the birkebeiner faction in the ongoing civil war against the bagler. Håkon ...
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  • The term English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed ... The execution of Charles I altered the dynamics of the Scottish Civil ...
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  • After military service with both sides in the American Civil War, Stanley was recruited in 1867 by Colonel Samuel Forster Tappan (a one-time ...
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  • Scotland (Scottish Gaelic Alba) is a nation in northwest Europe and ... kingdom of Great Britain. Scots law, the Scottish education system, the Church ...
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  • the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish city after Glasgow. It has ... been known as Dunedin, deriving from the Scottish Gaelic, Dùn Èideann. Dunedin ...
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  • to its dissolution until after the English Civil War and at the end of Interregnum ... Wars had bankrupted him. Fought between Scottish Calvinists and others in ...
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  • At the outset of the English Civil War, Cromwell began his military ... Organization petitioned the post World War I Paris Peace Conference in ...
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  • of Neville's Cross, taking the Scottish King David II Bruce prisoner. ... of Neville's Cross, taking the Scottish King David II Bruce prisoner. ...
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  • As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful ... Burnside was not the most apt general to take the field during the ...
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  • Her father's ancestors were Scottish and became part of the bustling ... At the end of the Civil War, when politicians were heatedly debating ...
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  • The Jacobean era refers to a period in English and Scottish history ... of the disastrous Thirty Years' War. The major impact of the Thirty ...
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  • a foreign government to overthrow or make war against one's own state ... the sovereign or head of state, making war against the state, conspiring ...
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  • force religious reforms upon Scotland led to war that weakened England and ... The last years of Charles's reign were marked by the English ...
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  • established the foundation for the English Civil War, during which James& ... individuals ever to sit on the English or Scottish thrones. Under him, much ...
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  • with the close of the Thirty Years' War (1648) and ended with the ... not only for the American Revolutionary War and liberalism, democracy ...
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  • ==Early years and Scottish connections== [[Image:GeorgeJamesone.jpg ... It is also possible that Wright met his wife during his Scottish residency ...
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