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Bannockburn

noun

A battle in which the Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English and assured the independence of Scotland.

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"Bannockburn" Quotes from Famous Books

... and that the lock of one whose claret you've drunk, and who has babbled of woman across your own mahogany—that lock, sir, were entirely sacred. Sacred as the Kirk of Scotland; sacred as King George upon his throne; sacred as the memory of Bruce and Bannockburn. ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV • Robert Louis Stevenson

... and common nationality, was not within the range of rational expectations.... It will be difficult to make those not familiar with the tone of feeling in Lowland Scotland at that time believe that the defeat of Donald of the Isles was felt as a more memorable deliverance even than that of Bannockburn."[6] ...

— An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) • Robert S. Rait

... playgrounds was the famous old Dunbar Castle, to which King Edward fled after his defeat at Bannockburn. It was built more than a thousand years ago, and though we knew little of its history, we had heard many mysterious stories of the battles fought about its walls, and firmly believed that every bone we found in the ruins belonged ...

— The Story of My Boyhood and Youth • John Muir

Words linked to "Bannockburn" : pitched battle, Scotland