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Month: September 2020

Auld Alliance
Books / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • September 30, 2020
  • 4 months
Tagged Auld alliance, dalton, Jacobites, Norman Invasion, Scottish History

Auld Alliance

A comment in Roger’s The Guardian of the Seas, that the French purpose in marrying the Dauphine to the Scots princess, Mary (Queen of Scots) was to acquire Scotland as a province, like Aquitaine, made […]

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Bees in my Bonnet
Books / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • September 27, 2020
  • 4 months
Tagged !820, dalton, Historical research, Scottish History

Bees in my Bonnet

While the research for the navy under the Stuarts is ongoing, I also need to do a bit on the early 1820,s for the follow on from Bubbles in the Cauldron. I have a good […]

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Pirates in Plymouth
Books / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • September 23, 2020
  • 4 months
Tagged Finding Historical story lines, Historical fiction, Naval History, Pirates, Plymouth

Pirates in Plymouth

This search started from two points of view, to find incidents involving the navy that would make story lines for an historical novel and to find out more of the growth of trade around the […]

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Medieval Invasion Strategy
Books / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • September 20, 2020
  • 4 months
Tagged Bernard Cornwell, dalton, Historic fiction, King Henry, Medieval war

Medieval Invasion Strategy

I’ve just been boning up on the navy in the time of the Henry’s and I’m amazed at the amount of work that has gone into the various books. However, as an old freelance journalist […]

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Sean Connery and Mel Gibson
Books / Character Development / Sullatober Dalton
  • September 19, 2020
  • 4 months
Tagged Character voices, dalton, Historical novel, Scottish History

Sean Connery and Mel Gibson

Once or twice I have had people warn others to be careful or they might end up in one of my stories but when I’m writing a story I like to think of my characters […]

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Pirates everywhere
Books / Character Development / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • September 17, 2020
  • 4 months
Tagged dalton, Dunkirk, Finding Historical story lines, Historical Novels, Medieval history

Pirates everywhere

I was amused to find that in the years before Elizabeth 1 the Scots had a ‘powerful’ navy. Not so much the Scots, but the people of the West Coast and the Islands, people who […]

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Proper Charlie’s invasion force
Books / Character Development / Short Story / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • September 14, 2020
  • 4 months
Tagged Charles 1, dalton, English civil war, Haggis, Highlanders

Proper Charlie’s invasion force

I’ve just been reading Sir Walter Scott’s account of the campaign of Graham of Montrose at the beginning of the Civil War. It’s accurate and readable but, like so many military and naval war accounts […]

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The Royal Scottish Navy
Uncategorized
  • September 10, 2020
  • 5 months
Tagged Finding story lines, Historical research, Naval History, Robert Bruce, Scottish History

The Royal Scottish Navy

I’ve started to research the navel activity during the Stuart Kings as it was a time of expanding trade and am enjoying it immensely. Irritatingly, the first thing I have come across is the cause […]

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Scotland starts the English Civil War
Books / Character Development / Sullatober Dalton / Uncategorized
  • September 6, 2020
  • 5 months
Tagged Charles 1, Covenanters, dalton, English civil war, Royal Navy

Scotland starts the English Civil War

The start of the English Civil War.

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The tragic ending of Jacobiteism
Uncategorized
  • September 2, 2020
  • 5 months
Tagged Bonnie Prince Charlie, dalton, Historical novel, Jacobites, Royal Navy

The tragic ending of Jacobiteism

My intention is to do a series on the Navy during the Stuart times, ending with Bonnie Prince Charlie and his escape to France but from the British point of view. That means the search […]

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