An academic is retracing the steps of thousands of 17th Century Scottish prisoners-of-war who were put through a 100-mile death march. Hundreds of captives taken at the Battle of Dunbar died at ...

[See photos of the 17th-century prisoners from the Battle of Dunbar] The two mass graves beneath Durham University had been hidden for nearly four centuries. "In quite a small area, a little more ...

An academic is to retrace the route of an infamous 17th Century ‘death march’ which resulted in hundreds of Scottish prisoners perishing ... troops after the Battle of Dunbar, in September ...

Prisoners were force-marched towards England ... loyal to king Charles II who died during the English civil war Battle of Dunbar is revealed after a... The images and video were created by ...

Prisoners of war from Scotland who died more than 350 years ago have been finally given a dignified burial. The ceremony took place in Durham following the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 where an ...

Today, their descendants live throughout the United States. In the centuries since the Battle of Dunbar prisoners were held in Durham, human remains were occasionally found near the cathedral ...

They were taken prisoner after English parliamentarian forces defeated the pro-Charles II Scottish Presbyterian army at the Battle of Dunbar on 3 September, 1650. Scientific and other ...

Many of the early Colonial settlers in York were prisoners of war from the Battle of Dunbar, Scotland in 1650 who became indentured servants before establishing themselves in York afterwards.

The prisoners were captured by Oliver Cromwell during the Battle of Dunbar in 1650, and many died from hunger or disease, the archaeologists said. Skeletons in the larger of the two mass graves ...

Archaeologists from Durham University established they were captives from the 1650 Battle of Dunbar who died while ... As an estimated 1,700 prisoners from the battle died and were buried in ...

The Battle of Dunbar 1296. Dunbar Castle is surrounded ... Most of them escaped but around 100 Scottish knights were captured and held prisoner in England. One of these prisoners was Andrew ...