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Mons Graupius - (84 AD) 10,000 Picts and 340 Romans killed when Calgacus fought Agricola. Romans win!
Nechtansmere, Forfarshire - (20th May 685 AD) The Saxon King Egfrid is defeated by the Pictish King Nechtan. Egfrid is slain
Carham - (1018) King Malcolm the 2nd and Owen of Strathclyde defeated the Northumbrian army on the Tweed.
Battle of the Standard - (1138) King David defeated and 10,000 Scots killed by the Normans.
Largs - (1263) King Haaken of Norway and his fleet beaten by the Scot.
Dunbar - (1296) Edward I of England invades Scotland and defeats them at Dunbar.
Battle of Stirling Brig' - (11th September 1297) William Wallace (later Sir William) defeated the English.
Falkirk - (1298) William Wallace and his army defeated by Edward I.
Loudon Hill - (1307) One year after King Robert the Bruce is crowned, he meets his first defeat.
Bannockburn - (23-24th June 1314) The Scots under King Robert the Bruce win an essential battle against the English .
Halidon Hill- (1333) Edward the 3rd of England defeated the Scots.
Nevilles Cross - (1346) King David the 2nd defeated and captured by the English.
Otterburn - (1388) English defeated, Harry and Ralph Percy captured.
Homildon Hill - (1402) Northumberland, England - Scots defeated.
Harlaw - (1411) Donald Lord of the Isles was defeated by an army of Lowlanders.
Flodden - (1513) King James IV loses decisive battle against the English, and is killed on the field.
Pinkie - (1547) Duke of Somerset destroys the Scots, just outside Edinburgh.
Rullion Green - (1666) The Covenanters defeated by General Dalyell.
Killiecrankie - (27th July 1689) First of the Jacobite wars. General Mackay defeated by Viscount Dundee. Viscount Dundee is mortally wounded.
Dunkeld - (21st August 1689) With their leader dead, the Jacobites are defeated by the Coventers.
Sherrifmuir - (1715) Jacobites rise again for King James VIII, and meet the English at Sherrifmuir.
Glenshiel - (1719) Another failed attempt by the Jacobites ends in defeat by the Hanovarian's.
Prestonpans - (19th September 1745) Prince Charles Edward Stuart(Bonnie Prince Charlie) and his army defeat Sir John Cope to achieve the first Jacobite victory.
Falkirk - (17th January 1746) Jacobites defeat the English governments troops.
The Jacobites are massacred by the Duke of Cumberland.