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Langside

noun
1.
(1568) Catholic forces supporting Mary Queen of Scots were routed by Protestants.  Synonym: battle of Langside.






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... was imprisoned for saying mass. In 1568 Mary, after her escape from Loch Leven, gave the chief direction of her affairs into the hands of the Archbishop, who was the bitter foe of the Regent Murray. Murray having defeated the Queen's forces at Langside, Hamilton took refuge in Dumbarton Castle, which was surprised and captured in 1571, when the Archbishop was taken to Stirling and hanged. In the words of the Diurnal of Occurrants: "as the bell struck ...
— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters



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