Word: methven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edward I that "he would defend himself with the longest stick he had." Edward, the master of a nation six times the size of tiny (pop. 400,000) Scotland, disdainfully instructed his legate in Scotland to "burn and slay and raise dragon" in the land. On June 19, at Methven field, the English scattered the rebel forces with great slaughter. King Robert's wife, daughter and sister were captured-in the spirit of fair prey, the English shut his sister up in a cage and hung her for several months on the walls of Roxburgh Castle. The King fled...
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