18th century Political union between Scotland and England Treaty of Union It replaced the Scottish systems of currency First World War In 19141918 Provided manpower, ships, machinery, food etc Scotland sent 690,000 men to the war The Battle of Loos They made up 15 per cent of the national armed forces Second World War In 19391945 Shipyards and heavy engineering factories Winston Churchill Industry developed Scottish monarchs The head of state First King of Scots was Kenneth MacAlpin Founded the state The Coronation Oath Elizabeth II Flag of Scotland Saint Andrew's Cross Adopted in 16th century Earliest use as a national symbol One part of the English flag References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Scotland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_Scottish_Independence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictish_stones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Scotland http://en.wikipedia
Cambridge. *Fergus Mor Mac Earca and Dalriada Fergus Mór mac Eirc was a legendary king of Dál Riata. He was the first king of the Scots in Scotland. He started a large-scale migration to Scotland which resulted in the establishment of a Scottish kingdom called Dalriada. Fergus was allowed to settle in Scotland as a federate of Arthur. Fergus brought the Stone of Scone with him from Ireland, that he was succeeded by a son named Dúngal. *Kenneth MacAlpin and the unification of Scotland The unification of Scotland began when Kenneth MacAlpin became king of the Picts and the Scots. Prior to this unification, Scotland had been a country divided between the Scots and the Picts. Kenneth MacAlpin, defeated the Picts. MacAlpin was not immediately recogninzed as the King of Scots and Picts for some years. Before defeating the Picts, he defeated the Vikings, driving them from the land
engus mac Fergusa (732761). The Kingdom of the Picts as it was in the early 8th century, when Bede was writing, was largely the same as the kingdom of the Scots in the reign of Alexander (11071124). However, by the tenth century, the Pictish kingdom was dominated by what we can recognise as Gaelic culture, and had developed an Irish conquest myth around the ancestor of the contemporary royal dynasty, Cined mac Ailpn (Kenneth MacAlpin). From a base of territory in eastern Scotland north of the River Forth and south of the River Oykel, the kingdom acquired control of the lands lying to the north and south. By the 12th century, the kings of Alba had added to their territories the Anglic-speaking land in the south-east and attained overlordship of Gaelic-speaking Galloway and Norse-speaking Caithness; by the end of the 13th century, the kingdom had assumed approximately its modern borders. However,
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