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The action at Lanark was an attack at Lanark, Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence in May 1297. The Scotsman William Wallace led an uprising against the English and killed the Sheriff of Lanark, William Heselrig. The attack was not an isolated incident, but rather saw Wallace joining in with uprisings taking place across Scotland.
We might be able to keep this article with some work, but I suggest moving it to "Action at Lanark" or something similar. PatGallacher ( talk ) 11:06, 26 June 2009 (UTC) [ reply ] This article...
After the action at Lanark, William Wallace joined forces with William Douglas the Hardy and led a raid on the city of Scone.He and his men forced William de Ormesby, the English-appointed Justice of Scotland, to flee, and took control.
A key leader in the Scottish Wars of Independence, he is known to have first "drawn his sword to free his native land" at Lanark in 1297, killing the English sheriff Haselrig. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] An 8-foot statue of Wallace sits on St Nicholas Church at the town cross dating back to 1817 which was sculpted by Carluke-born Robert Forrest .
L. Action at Lanark; Lanark (Parliament of Scotland constituency) Lanark (UK Parliament constituency) Lanark and Hamilton East (UK Parliament constituency)
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Lanark comprises four books, arranged in the order Three, One, Two, Four (there is also a Prologue before Book One, and an Epilogue four chapters before the end of the book). In the Epilogue, the author explains this by saying that "I want Lanark to be read in one order but eventually thought of in another", and that the epilogue itself is "too ...
The county took its name from the original county town at Lanark, which had been the site of the first Parliament of Scotland under Kenneth II in 978. [ 4 ] Local government was reformed in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 , which replaced Scotland's counties, burghs and landward districts with a two-tier structure of upper ...