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About one thousand years ago, the Gaelic word clann, which means children, first came into common usage. The earliest example of checked or striped cloth worn in Scotland is a fragment of two-color “dog-tooth” checked woolen fabric—the so-called “Falkirk tartan”—circa a.d. 235. However, prior to the sixteenth century, there is no evidence of the tartan as it is recognized today.
This full color print of the original painting by James Neal Madison depicts the final highland charge at Drommossie Muir during the Battle of Culloden, on April 16, 1746. Madison beautifully evokes the terrible reality of the struggle for the British throne that left 2,000 of the rebel clansmen dead at the feet of the government army, that had outnumbered them by two to one. Poster, 39" x 28".
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John Rees, soldier and freedom fighter, was a shadowy figure who surfaced during two crucial nineteenth-century revolts and then disappeared from history. For the first time, author John Humphries reveals the fate of the man, first mentioned as a member of the New Orleans Greys, who fought for Texan Independence at the Alamo and narrowly escaped execution at the Goliad Mission.