Scotland and the World Before the Union

[Pangur Bán]

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Here is a woodcutting of some Scottish mercenaries serving for Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years' War. The picture is of Stettin, within the boundaries of modern Poland. It is the earliest visual image I know of of the "Highland Dress":

The Garde Écossaise du Roi de France (L'adoration des Magi, 1445)

This is a piece of (Polish?) propaganda directed against the Swedes. It mocks there army as containing only Lapplanders, Livonians and Scots:

 

[Pangur Bán]

Patrick Gordon

Admiral Samuel Greig

Scots Kirk, Rotterdam

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Wow.

I'll add it into the Articles List.

 

[Al Zan]

great job! where did get the info?

 

[Pangur Bán]

Thanks Al Zan, Thanks XIII.

You'll have your answer to that question tomorrow, when I put up the bibliography. (I have to edit it too, because there are many excessive articles and such typos). Now, I haven't slept in 36 hours and now I must

 

[Pangur Bán]

OK...bibliography added...websites included

 

[chancellor_dan]

You've confirmed we have the "canniest" minds in the planet...

 

[EdwardTking]

Very enlightening. Now I know why St Andrew's university was built. I had never realised that the Anglo-French wars were really Anglo-Scots wars but played in France as a sort of mutually agreed foreign ground. But what is all this about claiming Northumbia as Scottish, of all the damm cheek!

Independence for England! Rebuild Hadrian's wall!