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After the Wars of Scottish Independence, the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France played a large part in the country's military activities, especially during the Hundred Years' War. In the Late Middle Ages under the Stewart kings forces were further augmented by specialist troops, particularly men-at-arms and archers , hired by bonds of ...
French victory in the Caroline War and the Lancastrian War. Anglo-Scottish Wars (1377–1575) Location: Scottish Borders and Northern England A 14th-century illustration depicting an English herald arriving on Scottish troops: Kingdom of Scotland: Kingdom of England: Series of border skirmishes resulting in stalemate
3 Second War of Scottish Independence (1332–1357) 4 Border Wars. 5 Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) 6 Anglo-Scottish wars. ... Scottish military defeat
The earliest known depiction of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 from a 1440s manuscript of Walter Bower's Scotichronicon. Warfare in Medieval Scotland includes all military activity in the modern borders of Scotland, or by forces originating in the region, between the departure of the Romans in the fifth century and the adoption of the innovations of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth ...
Scottish soldiers in the service of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden; 1631 German engraving. There was a complicated involvement between Scotland and the Thirty Years' War of 1618–1648. Scotland and the Scots were heavily entangled in both the diplomatic and military events which centred on the Holy Roman Empire. There were a number of reasons for ...
Though the military history of Scotland dates back to the era of classical antiquity, the first organised Scottish military units were formed in the Middle Ages, mostly to serve in the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the Hundred Years' War. Numerous Scottish units also fought in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and during the 1660 Stuart Restoration the ...
Within Scotland, from 1644 to 1645 a Scottish civil war was fought between Scottish Royalists—supporters of Charles I under James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose—and the Covenanters, who had controlled Scotland since 1639 and who were allied with English Parliamentarians. The Scottish Royalists, aided by Irish troops, had a rapid series of ...
The earliest known image of Scottish soldiers wearing tartan, from a woodcut c. 1631. Warfare in early modern Scotland includes all forms of military activity in Scotland or by Scottish forces, between the adoption of new ideas of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century and the military defeat of the Jacobite movement in the mid-eighteenth century.