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George Chalmers

George Everett Chalmers (1905–1993), Canadian doctor, surgeon and political figure


Áed mac Cináeda

Tradition, reported by George Chalmers in his Caledonia (1807), and by the New Statistical Account (1834–1845), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by Inverurie is the burial place of Áed.

Battle of Dun Nechtain

Dunnichen in Angus was first identified as a possible location for the battle by antiquarian George Chalmers in the early 19th century.

De Situ Britanniae

William Forbes Skene, in his introduction to Celtic Scotland, written after De Situ Britanniae was debunked, disparaged several once-influential histories that relied on it, including Pinkerton's Enquiry, George Chalmers's Caledonia, Roy's Military Antiquities, and Robert Stuart's Caledonia Romana.


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