When was flower of scotland written

Those days are past now, And in the past they must remain, But we can still rise now, And be the nation again, That stood against him against who? Penned by musician Roy Williamson, Flower Of Scotland is a relatively recent piece, and was only adopted by the national team in , although by then it had already been in informal use since Get ready to sing this loud and proud later today.

Being as it is only a constituent country of the UK, Scotland doesn't have an 'official' national anthem of its own.

In , a call for the Scottish Parliament to commission an official Scottish national anthem was turned down after the notion was raised by the MSP George Reid, who argued that Scotland needed a "proper" anthem. But the Parliament's petitions committee told him it did not have such powers, rather that it was a matter for the Home Office in London, a retort which left Reid somewhat less than satisfied.

The Jacobite rebellion of saw Wade in his new role of military governor. He twice helped foil Jacobite conspiracies, and even had the Swedish ambassador in London arrested. Wade reported back that the majority of Highland men able to bear arms were ready to do so against the Crown. To do this he needed to be able to move his troops quickly, and by the summer the first military road was under construction.

In the road connecting Stirling with Inverness was constructed. With the road complete, Wade needed to bridge the River Tay at Aberfeldy. In the course of this engineering work, Wade had supervised the construction of no less than miles of roads and 40 stone bridges. At the same time, slowly and with the tact and experience of a seasoned campaigner, he had also disarmed the clans.

It was in that Wade gained the rank of Field Marshal and in this same year he commanded the British contingent in Flanders. The campaign did not go well and Wade, who was seventy years of age and in bad health, resigned the command in March Possibly a twist of irony then to note that it is claimed that the first public performance of the God Save the King national anthem is said to have taken place in London in ….

Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us; God save the King! This text and tune is often credited to Henry Carey in , although there is some controversy surrounding this claim. It was loosely based on a hymn sung when the French King Louis XIV opened the educational institution at St-Cyr in ; his mistress, the Marquise de Maintenon, had commissioned Lully to write the tune to be sung by the pupils. Madame de Maintenon is said to have presented him with the words and music as his national or royal anthem.