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...base of a hill, between a dense woods and the River Scheldt in Flanders, the battle of Fontenoy was fought. From foggy morning to midafternoon the French Army (with Irish and Scottish allies), commanded by Marshal Maurice de Saxe, and an equal English force (aided by Dutch and Hanoverians), commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, engaged in confused and bitter slaughter. About noon, the English infantry broke through the French centre, obtained a foothold within the disorganized French lines, formed a hollow square against which French cavalry charged repeatedly in vain. When the English were nearly exhausted, de Saxe ordered...
...Duchess' disclosure had an air of authenticity because she is an M. P. who gets around, keeps her ears and eyes open. Since 1923 she has been a member from the backward Scottish agricultural constituency of West Perth and Kinross. At the outbreak of the two-year-old war in Spain, she refused to take sides. Year later she became publicly pro-Leftist, accepted the chairmanship of Britain's National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief and inaugurated the scheme which brought 4,000 Leftist moppets as refugees to England. Last April she resigned as Government whip, now votes...
Like a steel-blue knife blade pressed flat into the heathery Scottish highlands lies 22½-mile Loch Ness. Natives of the district have for centuries been seeing kelpies, bogies, wills-o'-the-wisp. Relatively young, relatively real to the outside world is "Nessie," the lake's mysterious monster, "seen" every season since...
...three-year-olds pounded down the curving hill into Tattenham Corner, Pasch was leading and looked as though he might be the sixth favorite to win the Derby since the War. But suddenly, smack in front of the grandstand, a mysterious horse shot out from behind, passed Pasch, passed Scottish Union, streaked up the hill to the wire, four lengths in front. It was Bois Roussel, a French-bred 20-to-i shot, owned by Hon. Peter Beatty, son of the late great Admiral Lord Beatty and grandson of Chicago's Marshall Field. Owner Beatty, who received...
...gathered in the rain outside the old grey clubhouse, shouted for Charley Yates, "the wee Yankee," who had captured their fancy with his drolleries during his visit in Scotland. "Let's all sing a little song," drawled Yankee Yates of Atlanta, Ga., and he began to warble a Scottish air. Everybody laughed, everybody sang, and skirling bagpipes resounded over the Scottish dunes, out into St. Andrew...