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 […]
Month: September 2020
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Scotland starts the English Civil War
The start of the English Civil War.
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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4 months
Tagged Auld alliance, dalton, Jacobites, Norman Invasion, Scottish History