Adam Smith

[Adam Smith @AdamSmi52578766]

@battleftrust King David II was the rightful King of Scotland because he was anointed with Holy Oil blessed by the Pope. God chooses the rightful King of Scots not the English. The English never learn their lesson and they never will. King David II was the son of King Robert the Bruce.

[Battlefields Trust @battleftrust]

19 July 1333 Battle of Halidon Hill

Edward III defeats Archibald Douglas in support of Edward Baliol's claim to the Scottish crown. The effective combination of longbow and dismounted men-at-arms was a tactic also deployed at the English victories at Crécy and Poitiers.

[Being Scottish @BeingScots]

On This Day in 1946: Irn Bru was born. The drink, first made in 1901, had previously been called Strachan's Brew then Iron Brew. New advertising legislation required the removal of the word 'brew', because it is not brewed. What's your favourite can?

[Adam Smith @AdamSmi52578766]

@BeingScots Very very interesting.

[Adam Smith @AdamSmi52578766]

On the 11th of July 1274, Robert the Bruce was born at Turnberry Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland. Bruce was the oldest son of Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale and Marjorie Countess of Carrick.

[NatRecordsScot @NatRecordsScot]

Today is the 704th birthday of the most famous national treasure in our collections: the Declaration of Arbroath, created 6 April 1320.

Find out more about this fascinating document 👇

https://t.co/P1AibKiCRu

[Battlefields Trust @battleftrust]

2nd July 1644
Battle of Marston Moor

Crushing defeat for Prince Rupert by a combined Scottish Covenanter and Parliamentary army deals a death blow to the Royalist cause in the north of England.
Battle monument by Lazlo Uzala
Battle plan by John Fawkes

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

24 June 1314. Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II’s English forces at the Battle of Bannockburn, in the First War of Scottish Independence. Though it did not bring overall victory in the war, which would go on for 14 more years, it was a landmark in Scottish history.

[Adam Smith @AdamSmi52578766]

@vivstan211240 Very very interesting. The last time I visited Bannockburn was 2018. Has anything else changed since then? Thank you.

[Dr Callum Watson 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @vivstan211240]

On Sunday 23rd June 1314, at about this time, the Battle of Bannockburn got underway. Among the initial skirmishing, King Robert personally killed Sir Henry de Bohun, an incident that has become one of the most enduring images of the battle:

https://t.co/wW3mrEjKB9

[Fact @Fact]

People fall in love on average 7 times before marriage.

[Adam Smith @AdamSmi52578766]

Happy 29th birthday to The late Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever.

[Ailish Sinclair @AilishSinclair]

The Lang Stane is hidden away on the corner of Langstane Place and Dee Street in Aberdeen (Music Hall in background). It may once have been part of a stone circle.

#StandingStoneSunday #Scotland

[Pete Crane @PeteCrane5]

Nearly 50 yrs ago improvements to the A9 in #Inverness were going to roll over Raigmore Clava Cairn so a group of volunteers moved it here, next to the hospital #StandingStoneSunday
More info @megportal here https://t.co/VKLMW2J2v5

[Undiscovered Scotland @UndisScot]

The massive tower of Dundonald Castle, dominating the Ayrshire landscape for miles around. It was built on an elevated site that had been fortified since around 500 and was the favourite home of King Robert II in the late 1300s. More pics and info: https://t.co/d8Wyll2kEr

[Battlefields Trust @battleftrust]

16 June 1487
Battle of Stoke Field

John de Vere, Earl of Oxford led Henry VII's army to victory over a rebel force of Yorkists, Irish kerns and German mercenaries at Stoke Field near Newark.

Link to our website and Battlefields Hub in bio.

[Battlefields Trust @battleftrust]

10 June 1138. Battle of Clitheroe. A Scottish army under magnate William fitz Duncan routs a heavily armoured English force near the river Ribble, in Lancashire. The victorious Scots march to join their main army under King David I near Northallerton.

[Dr Callum Watson 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @vivstan211240]

The Book - 1314: The Year of Bannockburn (link in the bio) - has started appearing in the wild! @ToppingsEdin in fact! Sandwiched between Barbour and Blind Hary, as is my fate it seems! 😅

[Adam Smith @AdamSmi52578766]

https://t.co/nCZRsTvlq0