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Wick, Caithness - The Battle Of The Orange - Ian Sutherland 1991

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In this audio extract, Ian Sutherland of Wick Heritage Society relates the story of the 'Battle of the Orange', or the 'Big War in Wick'. The extract is from Moray Firth Radio's 'Recollections' series, transmitted in 1991. www.ambaile.org.uk
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Clearances General.avi

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The Highland Clearances Many thousands of crofters, whose families had lived on the land for generations, were forcibly evicted, leaving empty glens and desolate villages. A storytelling from Elliot Rudie with Rosemary Mackintosh Strathnaver Museum The Hi
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Massacre Of Glencoe (Glencoe, House Of Macdonald Etc) From Scotdisc GRETNA To GLENCOE

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First recorded by Nigel Denver, later by Alastair McDonald, thereafter hotly pursued, it seems, by everyone else, Jim McLean`s song of the massacre of the Glencoe Macdonalds on the13th February 1692. A relatively small affair (by Scottish standards of mas
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Scotland Castles Documentary | Kincardine Castle History English Subtitles

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Great Estates of Scotland tells the stories of ambitious landowners who have acquired some of the most beautiful tracts of land in Scotland, areas ranging in size . Like us on Facebook ▻ Follow us on Twitter. Highclere Documentary | Mysteries of Highclere
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Forgotten Scottish Borders Castles

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A man dreams of forgotten Scottish Borders castles, in Selkirk and on the cliffs of Berwickshire ..... but are they real??
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SAVE THE ARGYLLS - NO SOUND

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Scotch House, Knightsbridge. Duchess of Argyll arrives to collect signatures to save the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Duchess Presented with bouquet - Queen Mothers piper - Pipe Major Bob Hill plays. Duchess collecting signatures. People queueing. Y
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Culloden

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The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart fought loyalist troops commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland near Inverness in the Scottish Highland
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Die Orkney Inseln [zdf, HD, Doku, 2014. Deutsch]

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Orkney ist ein aus etwa 70 kleineren und der Hauptinsel Mainland (alter Name: Pomona) bestehender zu Schottland gehörender Archipel. Er liegt, durch den Pentland Firth getrennt, nördlich von Caithness in Sichtweite der schottischen Nordküste. _ Dies ist e
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Highlands - Episode 1

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John Michie begins his cross country journey at a reconstructed 17th century township in the Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore in the Cairngorms and visits Castle Urquhart on the banks of Scotland's most famous loch, Loch Ness, to discover what life was
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Ruins Of Buchanan Castle Clan Graham Ancestry Drymen Scotland

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Tour Scotland video of Buchanan Castle west of the village of Drymen. The house was built by the 4th Duke of Montrose in 1854. The original structure, the ancestral seat of the Clan Buchanan, had burned down in 1852, and Montrose commissioned William Burn
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Hilton Of Cadboll Pictish Stone Scotland

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Tour Scotland video of the Hilton of Cadboll Pictish Stone on visit to the National Museum in Edinburgh. This stone was discovered at Hilton of Cadboll, on the East coast of the Tarbat Peninsula in Easter Ross. It is one of the most magnificent of all Pic
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Battle of Arras Commemoration, Wallace Monument Poppy Cascade.

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The 100th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Arras. Poppyscotland and Legion Scotland marked the anniversary with a commemorative service at the Wallace Monument followed by a poppy cascade of 46,000 petals representing the number of Scottish casualt
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