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    Roxburgh Castle is a ruined royal castle that overlooks the junction of the rivers Tweed and Teviot, in the Borders region of Scotland. The town and castle...
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    on a defensible peninsula between the rivers Tweed and Teviot, with Roxburgh Castle guarding the narrow neck of the peninsula, it was a settlement of some...
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  • Independence, she was captured by the English and imprisoned in a cage at Roxburgh Castle for about four years. She was the daughter of Robert de Brus, 6th Lord...
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    The family has its seat at Floors Castle near Kelso, Scotland. The grounds contain the ruins of Roxburgh Castle on a promontory between the rivers Tweed...
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  • Several ships have been named Roxburgh Castle for Roxburgh Castle: Roxburgh Castle (1809 ship) was launched in Spain in 1803 under another name. She was...
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  • county Roxburgh Castle, ruined castle near Roxburgh, Scotland Roxburgh, New Zealand, a town in Otago Roxburgh County, New South Wales, Australia Roxburgh Park...
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    maintain control of his kingdom, he was killed by an exploding cannon at Roxburgh Castle in 1460. James was born in Holyrood Abbey. He was the son of King James...
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    Roxburgh Castle was launched by Wigrams & Green, Blackwall, in 1825. She made two voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), during the first of...
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    carried on by gangs of Reivers. Floors also stands opposite the site of Roxburgh Castle, an important medieval fortress where King James II was killed during...
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    Linlithgow Palace and other schemes. In August 1436, James's siege of Roxburgh Castle failed, and he subsequently faced an ineffective attempt by Sir Robert...
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