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Anonymous ID: 484ec3 July 13, 2018, 7:54 p.m. No.2149103   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9116 >>9163

>>2148219 (lb) Turnbury and Turnbury Golf Course: History

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>>2148567

>The course is named after Robert the Bruce, the historical warrior who led Scotland to claim its right as an independent country in the Battle of Bannockburn in June 1314. He was born in July 1274 in Turnberry Castle - TT

>>2148591 kek, true dat

 

10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN

#4 The Scottish army famously used schiltron formation in battle

To counter the 2,000 heavily armoured English horsemen, Bruce ordered hundreds of holes to be dug which were capable of snapping horse’s legs. Also he used schiltrons which were strong defensive circles of men wielding long pikes. When fully formed the tightly formed group would deploy their pikes on three levels thus forming a wall of death against a charging cavalry.

It was essential for Bruce to use clever tactics as his army was less advanced than the English army, which was perhaps the finest of the medieval world.

 

https://learnodo-newtonic.com/battle-of-bannockburn-facts

Anonymous ID: 484ec3 July 13, 2018, 8:02 p.m. No.2149163   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9292

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>10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN

#5 The battle opened with one of the most celebrated single combat in Scottish history

On the first day of battle an English cavalry spotted and charged towards a Scottish group. The Scottish king was present there and an English knight, Sir Henry de Bohun charged across the field on his war-horse to strike him.

 

Robert Bruce stood his ground, dodged the lance and struck Bohun with his axe to split his head in two. The spirited Scots then forced the English cavalry to withdraw.

Later that day, another English cavalry charged the Scots, were unable to break the schilltron and withdrew in confusion.

Anonymous ID: 484ec3 July 13, 2018, 8:18 p.m. No.2149292   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9309 >>9381

>>2149174

Nice catch! Think CASTLE also?

 

https://www.maybole.org/places/turnberry/castle.htm

"In theory if the castle-town and castle courtyard fell during a siege, this boathouse could be used as a means of escape for the castle garrison if all else failed. Strangely the reverse is true of this defensive feature. When in 1307 King Robert the Bruce of Scots (1306-1329), entered Turnberry by way of this boathouse taking the unwelcome English garrison totally by surprise. The ancient site of Turnberry was originally held by the old Celtic Lords of Galloway, early Earls of Carrick during the reign of King William I of Scots( 1165- 1214). "

 

"And in 1307 he took Turnberry presumably slighting it preventing it and all other castles taken in the lowlands from being used as footholds and staging posts for the invading English. This policy paid off when in 1314 a massive overstretched English army snaking its way to Stirling were defeated at the battle of Bannockburn by King Robert the Bruce of Turnberry".

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