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Bannockburn

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Bannockburn

Town in Stirling unitary authority, Scotland, on Bannock Burn, 4 km/3 mi southeast of Stirling; population (2001) 7,400. Its principal industry is the manufacture of textiles and woollens. At the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, a resounding Scottish victory was achieved by Robert (I) the Bruce over the English forces of Edward II as they advanced to relieve Stirling Castle.

The bore stone reputed to have held the Scottish standard remains on display.



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Barbour was born about six years after the battle of Bannockburn.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
But when Robert Bruce, on the black pony, rose in his stirrups, and lifting his good battle-axe, cracked at once the helmet and the skull of the too hasty knight at Bannockburn, then Tom felt all the exaltation of sympathy, and if he had had a cocoanut at hand, he would have cracked it at once with the poker.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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