She fought off thousands of soldiers with just a handful of servants, saved a prince’s life, and is said to have changed the outcome of the ‘45 Jacobite rising... so why have we never heard of “Colonel” Lady Anne Macintosh?
She fought off thousands of soldiers with just a handful of servants, saved a prince’s life, and is said to have changed the outcome of the ‘45 Jacobite rising... so why have we never heard of “Colonel” Lady Anne Macintosh?
Edinburgh “delights the eye but is most powerfully offensive to the nostrils”, while the sound of bagpipes in the Capital has been likened to “a wild yell, as from a hundred tortured pigs”.
The road to the capital was opened up for the Jacobites when government dragoons 'fled in panic' along what is now Princes Street as a group of Highlanders advanced into Corstorphine on horseback.
The 200-year-old statue of Robert Burns in Leith is set to be removed during tram extension works on Constitution street, and later replaced out of the way of the road 20 feet West of its current location.
Around 30 descendants of Scots soldiers who were deported to North America as indentured servants in the 17th Century have arrived in Scotland to pay tribute to their ancestors.
IT is the hilarious deisgn which has captured the imagination of locals and visitors alike - even if some are blissfully unaware of its double entendre.
