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HMS Britannia was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. The vessel was laid down in 1751 and launched in 1762. The vessel was laid down in 1751 and launched in 1762. Nicknamed Old Ironsides , she served in the American Revolutionary War , the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars , including at the Battle of ...
Britannia is the title of each of three atlases created in England the late 16th and mid 18th centuries, describing some or all of the British Isles. These are the books published by William Camden (in 1586, reprinted 1693) and Richard Blome (in 1673) and John Ogilby (in 1675).
USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. The ship is the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat. [11] [Note 1] The ship was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed.
Craigievar Castle, Aberdeenshire. This is a list of castles in Scotland. A castle is a type of fortified structure built primarily during the Middle Ages. Scholars debate the scope of the word "castle", but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble.
Coventry, Martin (2001) The Castles of Scotland, 3rd Ed. Scotland: Goblinshead ISBN 1-899874-26-7; Coventry, Martin (2010) Castles of the Clans Scotland: Goblinshead ISBN 1-899874-36-4; Pattullo, Nan (1974) Castles, Houses and Gardens of Scotland Edinburgh: Denburn Press
One of the Nine Castles of Knuckle: Ravenscraig Castle: L-plan tower house: 15th century: Ruined: Inverugie: Slains Castle: Tower house, rebuilt as castellated house: 1597, rebuilt 1837: Ruined: Private: Cruden Bay "New" Slains Castle: Slains Castle: Tower house: 13th century: Ruined: Collieston "Old" Slains Castle, destroyed 1594: Terpersie Castle
RIB 2197. Distance Slab of the Twentieth Legion Valeria Victrix [14] George MacDonald calls in no. 9 in the 2nd edition of his book The Roman Wall in Scotland. [15] RIB 2195. Altar dedicated to the Goddesses of the Parade-ground and Britannia. [16] George MacDonald calls in no. 52 in the 2nd edition of his book The Roman Wall in Scotland. [17]
The wall stretches 63 kilometres (39 miles) from Old Kilpatrick in West Dunbartonshire on the Firth of Clyde to Carriden near Bo'ness on the Firth of Forth. The wall was intended to extend Roman territory and dominance by replacing Hadrian's Wall 160 kilometres (100 miles) to the south, as the frontier of Britannia.