Situtated just over ten miles east of Kilmarnock and today serving as a distinctive landmark to motorists on the A71, Loudoun Hill was selected by Robert as the meeting point for his and de ...

NARRATOR:The Wars of Independence. The Battle of Loudoun Hill 1307. When Robert the Bruce became King of Scotland in 1306, his first big battle against the English was a disaster! He was beaten ...

His fifth great-grandfather was David How, who kept a journal starting after the Battle of Bunker Hill. Philbrick remembers first learning about How as a child from those writings. He was 9 years old.

The Battle of Bunker Hill, 250 years ago this week, dropped the other shoe on the Thirteen Colonies’ march toward independence. In that spring of 1775, the first shots were fired with some ...