Friday, August 21, 2015

History Trivia - Dundee's rising in Scotland

August 21

 1165 Philip II (Philip Augustus) the first king of the Capetian dynasty in France was born.



1689 The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland was fought between Jacobite clans supporting the deposed king James VII of Scotland and a government regiment of covenanters supporting William of Orange, King of Scotland, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Scotland, and formed part of the Jacobite rising commonly called Dundee's rising in Scotland.

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