History
- Antonine Wall, Auld Alliance
- Battle of Bannockburn, Battle of Largs, Battle of Falkirk, Battle of Stirling Bridge
- Charles Edward Stuart, Col Ciotach, Culloden
- Declaration of Arbroath, Devolution
- Hadrian's Wall - often used as a metaphor, but none of which is actually in Scotland.
- John Knox
- John Paul Jones
- Massacre of Glencoe, Moss Troopers Act 1712
- Radical War, Red Clydeside, Rob Roy MacGregor
- Robert the Bruce
- Wars of independence, William Wallace
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