Talk:Battle of Pinkie Cleugh

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Why is it called "Pinkie Cleugh"? 69.137.220.179 01:56, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Good description of battle.

My one quibble is with the list of 'clans' which smacks of the worst sort of nineteenth century Scottish romanticism.

While the term may well be valid for Gaelic-speaking highlanders where the fictive kinship of a chieftain to his followers was an important factor, it is ridiculous applying it to lowlanders like the 'Grahams' and 'Armstrongs' who had neither the word nor the concept until Sir Walter Scott's generation stared systematically falsifying their country's history.