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Re: The Leith siege
The Scots who helped English troops in that siege were traitors as our Queen Mary neither sanctioned the attack or ratified the treaty. The French troops stationed there and on inchkeith in the Forth were there to protect us against the English and their attempts to enforce reformation on us (which eventually came about solely because John Knox wanted to get his grubby mits on a prominent landowners 16.5 year old daughter, a landowner who benefited greatly from the redistribution of church lands post reformation).
By all accounts it was an impressive artillery fort though, based on Spanish designs, who were the leaders in fortification until surpassed by France's Vauban in the 17th century.
I missed that article dude cheers for posting it
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, i'm away again as I'm not supposed to be here and the Budweiser tap in the crags is calling...............
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