page_title: Military history of Scotland
section_title: Wars and battles to 1707
hierarchical_section_title: Military history of Scotland / History prior to the Union / Wars and battles to 1707
caption_attribution_description: English: A depiction of the Battle of Bannockburn from a 1440s manuscript of Walter Bower's Scotichronicon. This is the earliest known depiction of the battle.
context_page_description: Historically, Scotland has a long military tradition that predates the Act of Union with England. Its soldiers form part of the armed forces of the United Kingdom, more usually referred to domestically within Britain as the British Armed Forces.
context_section_description: Scottish–Norwegian War
  Battle of Largs
  Wars of Scottish Independence
  First War of Scottish Independence
  Battle of Dunbar
  Battle of Stirling Bridge
  Battle of Falkirk
  Battle of Bannockburn
  Second War of Scottish Independence
  Battle of Halidon Hill
  Battle of Nesbit Moor
  Anglo-Scottish Wars
  Battle of Otterburn
  Battle of Nesbit Moor
  War of the League of Cambrai
  Battle of Flodden
  Rough Wooing
  Battle of Ancrum Moor
  Battle of Pinkie
  Siege of Haddington
  Marian civil war
  Battle of Langside
  Lang Siege
  Wars of the Three Kingdoms
  Bishops' Wars
  Irish Confederate Wars
  First English Civil War
  Second English Civil War
  Battle of Preston
  Third English Civil War
  Battle of Dunbar
  Battle of Worcester
  Jacobite risings
  Jacobite rising (1689–92)
  Battle of Killiecrankie
caption: The earliest known depiction of the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 from a 1440s manuscript of Walter Bower's Scotichronicon
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