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 The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: desparado  
Date:   Fri 30 Aug 20:45

Aug 29th 1797. Dozens killed wounded many women raped. All committed by dragoons whose commanding officer was Viscount Hawkesbury, a future British PM….

Only learned of this atrocity earlier today.

These things should be taught in schools so we can know just how perfidious Albion was….and still is.

And to think many Scots actually believe that the Union was voluntary…..

What an opportunity we missed in 2014.
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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: Tad Allagash  
Date:   Fri 30 Aug 22:59

‘Dozens’ is an exaggeration by all accounts, and Viscount Hawkesbury wasn’t there.

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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: Big T Par  
Date:   Fri 30 Aug 23:30

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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: Parboiled  
Date:   Sat 31 Aug 08:18

Despersaddo cannae get over Scotland’s voluntary decision 10 years ago...

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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: hurricane_jimmy  
Date:   Sat 31 Aug 12:08

Parboiled and Tad Allagash as always being Boris` and Nigel`s useful idiots. Clueless about the history of Scotland and loyal to a nation both younger and more imperialist. And of course anyone who disagrees with them is either "uneducated" or "brainwashed by leftist woke universities" in their little bubble.

Like the Putin schills, Xi Schills, Zionists, Islamists and Evangelicals, these guys should just be mocked for both their ignorance and arrogance! Honestly, glad that these eejits are dying out! 🤣🤣🤣

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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: jake89  
Date:   Sat 31 Aug 13:33

Tad is correct though? It was a dozen rather than dozens.

Scottish history IS taught (alongside world history) but I don`t recall the Tranent being taught but I`m sure there was some stuff about Prestonpans.
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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: Big T Par  
Date:   Sat 31 Aug 13:52

22 people (at least) were killed, so more than a dozen, but not quite dozens. Being from Tranent, we certainly knew all about it. There`s a statute in the town centre of Jackie Crookston, who led the demonstrations, shouting NAE MILITIA.

A lot of the streets and areas of Tranent, are named after people who were killed in it.

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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: DBP  
Date:   Mon 2 Sep 17:20

I didn’t get any Scottish history at school
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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: veteraneastender  
Date:   Fri 6 Sep 18:24

History, like other subjects, is focused on a curriculum that teachers are tasked to follow - with specific exam questions on the menu.
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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: Andrew283  
Date:   Fri 6 Sep 20:05

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DBP, Mon 2 Sep 17:20

I didn’t get any Scottish history at school


Same, not a jot. Was British politics, Ww1, WW2 and the build up to WW2.
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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: Parboiled  
Date:   Sat 7 Sep 13:18

I devoured Nigel Tranter novels in my early teens. As well as all the bloody battles Tranter was a great at relating the plotting, power grabs, rivalries, and back stabbing (often literally) of struggles for the throne and the politics of the time.

“who was known as as the the The Wisest fool in Christendom* featured as the million quid question on who wants to be a millionaire. The contestant didn’t know but I did ..it was the title of a Tranter novel about James 1 and v1.!

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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: Dave_1885  
Date:   Sun 8 Sep 08:18

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DBP, Mon 2 Sep 17:20

I didn’t get any Scottish history at school


I got plenty of it at Primary school…….learnt all about Robert the Bruce, Bannockburn, Dunfermlines history, Mary Queen of Scots, Arthurs Seat and importantly Dalgety Bays history ……must just depend on which school your at I guess.

Visited Holyrood Palace, National Museum, Bannockburn, Stirling Castle, Abbot House, Dunfermline Abbey, St Margarets Cave all with the school too along with plenty of other places.

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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: DBP  
Date:   Sun 8 Sep 08:47

When was that - might be something to do with timescales as well?
Also I grew up in leith and not fife, so not sure if that would change curriculum?

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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: jake89  
Date:   Sun 8 Sep 10:03

Current Nat 5 curriculum covers Scottish and British history. For Scotland it covers:

War of independence
Mary Queen of Scots and reformation
Treaty of the union
Migration and the Empire
The Great War

It also covers European and World history so you get all the WW2 stuff, Cold war, American Civil rights etc.

Depressing seeing some of the stuff I was taught in *Modern* Studies now being covered in History 😂
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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: veteraneastender  
Date:   Sun 8 Sep 10:38

We had Scottish history in Primary - I suspect teachers had leeway to cover it, unlike Secondary.
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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: Tad Allagash  
Date:   Sun 8 Sep 10:57

‘ Depressing seeing some of the stuff I was taught in *Modern* Studies now being covered in History 😂’

Yep - Modern Studies was the Berlin Wall and South African apartheid which were ‘current affairs’ when I was at school.

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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: Dave_1885  
Date:   Sun 8 Sep 20:20

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DBP, Sun 8 Sep 08:47

When was that - might be something to do with timescales as well?
Also I grew up in leith and not fife, so not sure if that would change curriculum?


I was at primary from 94 to 01 so then. Donibristle Primary too, not sure if Dalgety Bay done the same.
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 Re: The massacre of Tranent
Topic Originator: desparado  
Date:   Mon 9 Sep 14:22

I said dozens killed wounded….missed an “ and “ out. So my OP was correct.


Back then the uppity Jocks we’re kept in their place by force if necessary.

Nothing has really changed. Instead of bullets and bayonets they use the media to placate and control us whilst removing our natural resources.

Aided and abetted of course by so called “ Proud Scots”…..the type Burns wrote about…..back then…

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