Qualla: Battle of Kinghorn https://qualla.com/battle-of-kinghorn en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/battle-of-kinghorn-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Kinghorn https://qualla.com/battle-of-kinghorn Battle of Kinghorn: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-kinghorn/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. Fifteen hundred men in flat-bottomed boats are not supposed to defeat four thousand on a beach. But on 6 August 1332, at Wester Kinghorn on the north shore of the Firth of Forth - a place now called Burntisland - that is exactly what happened. Edward Balliol, son of the deposed King John Balliol, was still disembarking his troops when the Scots fell on the beach. His longbowmen drove them off before half his men-at-arms had stepped ashore. Five days later he crushed the main Scottish army at Dupplin Moor. Six weeks later he was crowned king of Scotland at Scone. Five months later he was thrown out of the country half-dressed, riding bareback. The Second War of Scottish Independence had begun.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/battle-of-kinghorn-wp/gcvw-battle-of-kinghorn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Kinghorn: The Shameful Peace https://qualla.com/battle-of-kinghorn/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. Robert the Bruce had won Scottish independence at Bannockburn in 1314 and the Treaty of Northampton in 1328. The treaty was widely loathed in England, where it was nicknamed turpis pax - 'the shameful peace.' Some Anglo-Scots nobles who had backed England in the wars and lost the...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/battle-of-kinghorn-wp/gcvw-battle-of-kinghorn-the-shameful-peace.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Kinghorn: Catastrophe of Timing https://qualla.com/battle-of-kinghorn/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. David II's regent, the experienced soldier Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, had prepared the Scots for the invasion. He died ten days before Balliol sailed. The Scots, scrambling, chose Donald, Earl of Mar, as the new guardian and divided the army. Mar took the troops north of...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/battle-of-kinghorn-wp/gcvw-battle-of-kinghorn-catastrophe-of-timing.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Kinghorn: Slaughter on the Beach https://qualla.com/battle-of-kinghorn/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Scottish force at Kinghorn was commanded by Duncan, Earl of Fife, and Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale - an illegitimate son of King Robert the Bruce. Their numbers are disputed: English chronicles claim 4,000, 10,000, 14,000, even 24,000. Scottish sources say much less. The ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/battle-of-kinghorn-wp/gcvw-battle-of-kinghorn-slaughter-on-the-beach.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Kinghorn: The Brief Kingship of Edward Balliol https://qualla.com/battle-of-kinghorn/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. Balliol marched inland to Dunfermline, where he looted a Scottish armoury. On 11 August his army - reportedly outnumbered ten to one - met Donald of Mar's main Scottish force at Dupplin Moor and inflicted what may have been the most one-sided defeat in medieval Scottish history. ...

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