Today, on Remembrance Day, wreaths will be laid to remember the fallen at 11am at the Stone of Remembrance. It follows the firing of Edinburgh Castle’s One O’clock Gun at 11am yesterday on Armistice Day. In London, there was a firing of guns from Horse Guards Parade and a procession past the Cenotaph. Last Remembrance Day, Nicola Sturgeon lead a wreath outside Edinburgh City Chambers. Humza Yousaf will likely do the same this morning. The history of Scotland and England is one of shared war.
It’s only relatively recently, then, that Scots have fought alongside the English, playing a major role in the British army.
The union came through war and conquest. By 78 AD, all of England and Wales was under Roman control, but some of Scotland was never taken over. (Around 83 AD, the Romans crossed the Forth and defeated the Caledonian Confederacy, but were only able to take the lowlands. Highland terrain was far too tricky.)
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