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	Stirling Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stirling Castle is an historic castle in Stirling, Scotland.
		The castle sits atop the castle hill, a volcanic crag, and is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs.
		The castle is a national monument, and is managed by the Historic Scotland agency.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stirling_Castle (515 words)

	Sieges of Constantinople - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Sieges of Constantinople (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Two sieges resulted in the capture of Constantinople: in 1204 by crusaders, and in 1453 by the Ottoman Empire under Mehmed II.
		When the siege began the Byzantines were able to repair the walls most of the time; however a few wall sections broke and the Byzantines had to drive the Turks back.
		So the siege began again on May 28 and the Turks began assaulting the Blacernae walls and found the Kalkoporta gate was left open and went in.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Sieges-of-Constantinople.html (516 words)

	Castle History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stirling Castle is an important part of Scottish history.This castle aided in scottish struggles for independence from English lordship.
		In 1139 the castle was handed over to Henry II of England along with five other castles, in return the release of William the lion was granted.
		One of the most notable sieges of the castle took place in 1304, by which time stirling was the only castle left to the patroits.
	www.7oaks.org /wkci/tourism/Stir/castle.htm (186 words)

	Sieges of Stirling Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Armed with twelve siege engines the English laid siege of the castle in April 1304.
		For four months the castle was bombarded by lead balls (stripped from nearby church roofs), Greek fire, stone balls, and even some sort of gunpowder mixture.
		Between 1571 and 1585 the castle was besieged three times by Scots factions during the reign of James VI.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sieges_of_Stirling_Castle (365 words)

	UW-RF Master of Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Castles were the means of maintaining stability and whoever had control of the castle had control over the land.
		The English would lay siege to a castle and the land and people were forced with English rule, but then the Scots would besiege the castle and regain their own control of the land and territory before the English once again besieged it.
		The castle fell in and out of the hands of the English on more than one occasion, as one may have noted, but the most famous of all events for Stirling Castle and the Scots was the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
	www.uwrf.edu /cbe/economics/research/A_Look_Into_Scottish_Castle.htm (4401 words)

	Clan Stirling Online! Research Library Article
		The view from the castle is of vast extent, and comprehends the richest variety both of the beautiful and the grand in natural scenery.
		High antiquity is claimed for " Grey Stirling with her towers and town." The oldest existing charter of the burgh is dated in 1120, but it bears to be a confirmation of former grants; and the fort or castle was a place of importance a considerable time before this.
		The population of Stirling in 1871 was 14,279.
	www.clanstirling.org /Main/lib/castle/GFRobsonPrintofStirlingCas.html (297 words)

	Chapter V. Stirling Castle
		The castle rock on the ridge to the north of the castle buildings shows such markings very distinctly, the rock being ground into a series of parallel hollows, having the sides in some places grooved and polished, evidently by ice in some form acting from the north-west.
		Stirling, or Snowdon, as it was formerly, and more poetically called, according to some, is in the Greek, Ouandouara, or, in the Latin form, the Vanduaria of Ptolemy; though that author names Paisley as entitled to this distinction.
		Opposite the castle, northwards, lies Gowlan Hill, on the extremity of which, near the bridge, is a small mound, known by the name of "Hurly Hawkie," and so called from the childish amusement of using the skeleton of a cow’s head, for a sliding stool on the declivity.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/stirlingshire/chap5.htm (6840 words)

	Castles along the roman road-system - Castle Quest
		The distribution of castles in these areas roughly corresponds with that of the Roman roads, however that is probably due simply to topography, since in the wider valleys, the distribution of castle sites spreads across the available land.
		I personally think the evidence is equivocal and that you could argue that whilst it is clear some castles were built to protect this route it also appears that some effort was made to ensure that the route was not dominated by castles.
		The major royal castles are generally based in centers of population and there prodominate reason for foundation was to put the populous in awe of the new royal power.
	www.castlesontheweb.com /quest/Forum12/HTML/000116.html (2231 words)

	SquiresBookShoppe
		Castles were thus built by an alien aristocracy in a hostile environment to provide shelter and to maintain control over the surrounding countryside.
		Above all, The Medieval Castle is a book about the daily life-from clothes and food to recreation and customs-and the people who made their homes inside a military fortress.
		Trace each stage of the castles' development from Norman times through Plantagenet and Edwardian expansion, including their role in strengthening the coastline during the Tudor age, the appalling devastation suffered in the Civil War, and the gradual decay of the castle--and its renaissance.
	www.thesquirespipe.com /SquiresBookShoppe.html (1264 words)

	Clan Campbell - The Argyll Campbells
		As a reward for assisting the Steward of Scotland in 1334 in the recovery of the castle of Dunoon, in Cowal, Sir Colin was made hereditary governor of the castle, and has the grant of certain lands for the support of his dignity.
		The Duke of Argyll is hereditary master of the queen's household in Scotland, keeper of the castles of Dunoon, Dunstaffnage, and Carrick, and heritable sheriff of Argyleshire.
		As the cortege wound its way from the parish church to Inveraray Castle, the streets of the town on the banks of Loch Fyne were silent.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/atoc/campbel-a.html (5923 words)

	Images of Edinburgh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Castle Rock was formed by glaciers in the last ice age, thousands of years ago, but the first settlement here dates back to about 1000 BC.
		Certainly it has been a convenient place of safety to which to send royalty, right up to the time when Mary, Queen of Scots, was sent to the Castle for security before the birth of her son, King James.
		With every century the outward appearance of the Castle has changed, so that its jagged outline today, blotted against the sunset sky, is utterly different from what people from previous centuries would recognise.
	www.magicdragon.com /EdinburghScotland (232 words)

	Medieval Castle History Summary
		At the siege of Tourfière, France, the women who had taken refuge in the castle stood on the battlements alongside the men, casting stones as well as bu.....
		Occasionally the lord of a castle under siege might grow impatient with always being on the defensive and lead a band of knights on a sally, riding out through the.....
		The peasants who farmed the land in the vicinity of a castle were likely to suffer far more from a war than the castle's defenders did.
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/medieval-castle/08.html (570 words)

	Information on Battle of Stirling Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Battle of Dunbar (1296) â“ Stirling Bridge â“ Battle of Falkirk (1298) â“ Sieges of Stirling Castle â“ Battle of Methven â“ Battle of Bannockburn â“ Battle of Dupplin Moor â“ Battle of Halidon Hill
		The Battle of Stirling Bridge was one of the series of conflicts of the Wars of Scottish Independence.
		When asked by a local why the Battle of Stirling Bridge was filmed on an open plain, Mel Gibson answered that "the bridge got in the way".
	www.information-resource.net /search/Battle_of_Stirling_Bridge.html (450 words)

	Eilean Donan Castle
		In 1984 the castle served as background in several scenes of "HIGHLANDER", a cinema-film with Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert (as a member of the Clan MacLeod, dressed as a MacLeod of Harris).
		The Castle, defended by only forty-eight Spaniards commanded by a Captain and Lieutenant, fell after a short bombardment to the superior artillery fire, and the Spanish soldiers were shipped back to Leith and imprisoned there.
		The stark ruins of the once proud Castle were to remain neglected for 200 years until restoration by a MacRae of the twentieth century.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/leitrim/147/eilean.html (820 words)

	Uktravel.com - Castle Guide
		Before these defenses were completed they had to withstand the only two sieges in the castles history.
		The first Siege on Windsor Castle came when prince John rebelled against King Richard I, his brother, while he was fighting the crusades.
		Windsor castle fell into parliamentary hands at the beginning of the hostilities leading up to the Civil war, saving it from the siege that surely would have taken place otherwise.
	www.uktravel.com /castlecontent.asp?timeID=windsor&offset=70 (734 words)

	Stirling Castle - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Stirling Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stirling Castle - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Stirling Castle.
		Here you will find more informations about Stirling Castle.
		This was begun by King James IV, but is mainly the work of King James V. With its combination of renaissance and late gothic detail, it is one of the most charming buildings in Scotland.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Stirling-Castle.html (507 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The demesnes of the castle having been erected into a barony prior to the abolition of hereditary jurisdiction in the year 1748, courts of law were held in it; but, happily for the Scottish peasantry, these "hereditary and exclusive privileges" were thenceforth solemnly transferred to the executive government of the country.
		William Stirling Parkerson, one of the leading members of the New Orleans bar, as well as one of the most brilliant orators of the South, is a native of Louisiana, he being born on the Stirling plantation, in St. Mary's Parish, on the 24th of April 1857.
		It [the castle] was the birth-place of James II., and a favourite residence of the succeeding princes.
	www.clanstirling.org /Main/lib/newsdat.txt (15480 words)

	Vacation Scotland, Kinross and Loch Leven Castle, on a unique small group tour of Scotland. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The castle was probably constructed in the 13th C., survived various sieges by the English during the 14th C. and was granted to the Douglas family in 1372 by King Robert II (1316-90).
		The square keep dates from the 15th C. In 1675 the Castle was bought from the indigent Douglases, along with a sizeable estate, by Sir William Bruce (1630 - 1710) who proceeded to build Kinross House, a fine palladian mansion, overlooking the loch and the castle.
		Loch Leven Castle has been a ruin since the 18th C, but can be reached by ferry from Kinross duing the summer months.
	www.fife-scotland.50megs.com /loch_leven_castle_kinross.html (423 words)

	http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/castle.prestwich.htm
		The main castles to he held by the English in Scotland were: south-east, Berwick, Jedburgh and Roxburgh.
		The castle was begun in the 1240s, and there is no reason why the gate should not date from that period.
		The licence suggests that the castle was built near the sea, for the defence of the adjacent country, and for
	www.uwm.edu /~carlin/castle.prestwich.htm (9063 words)

	To Capture a Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In twelfth-century medieval France, Count Geoffrey V of Anjou used a siege engine to hurl a heated iron jar filled with Greek fire at the castle of Montreuil-Bellay, which promptly fell after having endured a three-year siege.
		England's Edward I, a master of siegecraft as well as castle building, was particularly fond of the trebuchet and used it and other siege engines against castles in Scotland, Wales, and France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
		In 1304 Edward I assaulted Scotland's Stirling Castle using thirteen siege engines, including a springald, a battering ram, and an enormous trebuchet named Warwolf, which, when disassembled, filled thirty wagons.
	www.thehistorynet.com /mhq/blcaptureacastle/index2.html (1200 words)

	Sieges of Stirling Castle
		3 sieges between Scots factions during the reign of James VI
		1304 - Edward I lays siege to Scots rebels
		The last stronghold of resistance to English rule was Stirling castle.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/sieges_of_stirling_castle (419 words)

	DVD and VHS Videos about Castles and Knights
		Massive castles of wood were built to protect their owners and their vast holdings.
		Scotland's castles are one of the country's greatest treasures, and are a stirring reminder of her past.
		America's Castles presents an extraordinary tour of the "river valley of the millionaires." For the earily captains of Wall Street the majestic Hudson Valley provided an ideal getaway from the chaos of New York City.
	www.sedelmeier.com /video2.htm (3343 words)

	Edinburgh to Aberdeen via Dundee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		References in early annals to sieges at 'Duin Fother' in 681AD and 694AD indicate that it was the location of a fort of the Pictish tribes of the Mearns.
		According to Sir Walter Scott, Wallace and his men found a way in to the castle, while the garrison, in great terror, fled into the church which was built on the very edge of the precipice.
		Improvements were made and the castle was enlarged in the 16th and 17th centuries.
	www.lawrieweb.com /ea/ea09.html (2169 words)

	Scottish Books - Reviews - Castle Quest
		Prehistoric Scotland, Castles and Mansions, Haunted Castles, The Picts, Robert The Bruce, William Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, Whisky, Robert Burns....
		Incredibly detailed, describing the western european politcs of the era, the campaigns, the policies, sieges, castles, land ownership, allegiances, alliances, and of course The Wars of Independance.
		Brian Wakefield's "A-Z of Scottish Castles" is best by-passed, due to the numerous errors and the fact that the entries are not entirely in alphabetical order, although it is helpful if you are not sure exactly which area a castle is in.
	www.castlesontheweb.com /quest/Forum10/HTML/000044.html (3300 words)

	CASTLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Search the CASTLE Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the CASTLE Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named CASTLE at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/C/CASTLE.htm (73 words)

	Scotland's Past - William Wallace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wallace and his men then took the castle although his chaplain, Blair "for wit and valour fam'd", was wounded.
		The castle at Ayr required a large garrison and not all the men could be kept within the castle walls so around five hundred of them were billeted in timber barns.
		Murray raised his standard at Ormonde Castle in the Black Isle and then went on to harry and harass the English garrisons and supply trains with guerrilla tactics, which were always the Scots best weapon.
	www.scotlandspast.org /wallaceID3.cfm (4346 words)

	Lynott Tours - Scottish Insider - Private tour of Scotland - Custom Scottish luxury travel
		A few miles distant is Stirling, with its Renaissance castle perched high on a cliff.
		Visit Castle Fraser, a fairytale pink fortress en route to Kildrummy Castle, a baronial country house hotel with idyllic gardens, and tapestried walls.
		Cawdor Castle, the place Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote Macbeth is nearby.
	www.lynotttours.com /b-sinsid.html (754 words)

	Cannon
		Bombardum was used for cannon and cannonball as early as 1430, and bombator is known from 1456 for a gunner, or or bombardiator from 1547.
		James II of Scotland was killed by a burst cannon at the siege of Roxburgh in 1460.
		The Scots defended Stirling Castle with cannon in 1341, and three cannon were used at the battle of Crécy-en-Ponthieu in 1346 by Edward III.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/tech/cannon.htm (11359 words)

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