The Honours of Scotland, also known as the Scottish Crown Jewels, date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and are the oldest surviving set of crown jewels of the United Kingdom. The Crown of Scotland (1540), the Scepter (circa 1494), and the Sword of State (1507) are the three ...
At one of the extremities of the camp, near an immense tent, in which the Scottish officers were holding a kind of council, presided over by Lord Leven, their commander, a man attired as a cavalier lay sleeping on the turf, his right hand extended over his sword. "I said, sire, tha...
It was not long before Dunnottar was under siege and a scratch garrison of 70 men held out for eight months against the invading forces. Soon it became obvious that the castle was going to fall and something had to be done to save the ‘Honours’. The crown, sceptre and sword were lo...
this famous regiment through the Boer War and WWI until 1922 when the 1st and 2nd Life Guards were amalgamated. This did not end the life of this impressive pattern. Instead the "2" was dropped from the guard's ornamental cypher and it became the official state sword of the Life Guards....
with a pole bearer at each corner. The Honours of Scotland were carried by high ranking nobles: the spurs were carried by the Earl of Eglinton, the Earl of Rothes held the Sword of State, the Earl of Crawford and Lindsay carried the sceptre, and the Marques of Argyle, carried the cr...
Sir John Dalrymple, Secretary of State for Scotland, seized the opportunity to make an example of the Macdonald’s by "rooting out that damnable sect, the worst in all the Highlands." At the beginning of February 1692, Captain Robert Glenlyon was ordered to lead a hundred and twenty men ...
In the 18th century, the Laird of Clan Grant summoned clan members, tasking them to bring 'also with gun, sword, pistill and dirk'. This indicates that whatever event they were to attend would involve testing their skill with weapons. ...
with the great boar, Au Cu Mor received a mortal wound and died at the Great Conachar's feet. Conachar, son of Aoidh, lived long after his dog died. Conachar, son of Aoidh, now rests with his sword beneath Clach-Ochonachair, at Innis-Ochonachair, in Urquhart....
It wasn't long before she picked up parts in such high-profile historical epics as "The Man in the Iron Mask," which starred a sword-swinging Leonardo DiCaprio, fresh off "Titanic," and Julie Taymor's colorful adaptation of Shakespeare's blood-soaked "Titus." Even as the century turned,...
He accepts he made misjudgements and falls on his sword. Chances of this: 5%-to-HellFreezesOver. He is a golden boy whom fate has yet to teach fallibility. While any forecast is fraught with imponderables, the smart money should go on the hung vote when everyone shows up, votes as whi...