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Franco-Scottish alliance


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Also known as the Auld Alliance. An offensive and defensive alliance, aimed at crippling England's attempts to conquer Scotland or France by threatening war on two fronts. First agreed at Paris in 1295, the Franco‐Scottish alliance was renewed periodically until renounced by Scotland in 1560.

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Franco-Scottish alliance
in The Oxford Companion to British History (1 rev) Length: 273 words
Franco‐Scottish alliance
in A Dictionary of British History (1 rev) Length: 47 words
Franco‐Scottish relations
in The Oxford Companion to Scottish History Length: 3760 words

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