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Commémoration De La Bataille De SAINT VALERY

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Commémoration de la Bataille de SAINT VALERY EN CAUX, en juin 1940. Hommage aux troupes alliées et plus particulièrement aux troupes écossaises de la 51ème Highland Division.
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Battle Of St Valery 70th Anniversary Tribute.wmv

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This video is a tribute to all those killed or captured at the Battle of Saint Valery in 1940. In order to be able to evacuate at Dunkirk the 51st Highland Division were ordered to fight a reaguard action drawing Rommel's troops down to St Valery En Caux
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Border Reivers

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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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Heroes Of St. Valery

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Samuel Foucher (Accordion), Willy Clementson (Fiddle), Clara Stickney (Harp), and Benjamin Foss (Soprano Bouzouki) at Maine Fiddle Camp, August 2017. The tune is Heroes of St. Valery, which Samuel learned from Becky Tracy at Northern Roots 2017.
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Jethart's Here at Redeswire Stane 2014 - Jethart Callants Festival

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Jethart Callants Festival 2014
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New Research Finds Astronomical Connection To Scotland's Stone Circle

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University of Adelaide research has for the first time statistically proven that the earliest standing stone monuments of Britain, the great circles, were constructed specifically in line with the movements of the Sun and Moon, 5000 years ago.http://proxy
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The Border Reivers

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A short extract from Jim Webb's documentary - 'Born Fighting - How the Scots-Irish Shaped America' about the culture of the Reivers of the borderlands between Scotland & England, many of whom were exiled to Ulster in King James' Plantation. Please visit:
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51st HD Celebrate At St. Valery

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The 51st Highland Division recently held a special parade at St. Valery on the Somme to pay honour to those who fell in the rear guard action of 1940. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f9775adf93e444d
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The Reivers - Making Of The Borders Alistair Moffat

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The entire 6 part series as seen on ITV Border. From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of
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Crime Scene Scotland 101

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Swords And Stairs At The Wallace Monument

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For Josh, wherein I bore you with (mostly incorrect) history and (wannabe/pseudo) intellectual conjecture. Featuring the lovely Lex, who's videos are far shorter, far more instructive and far less boring: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Xr4liwa8fFyT53y
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