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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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)
“History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“I saw the Arab map.
It resembled a mare shuffling on,
dragging its history like saddlebags,
nearing its tomb and the pitch of hell.”
—Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said] (b. 1930)