Battle of Langside

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The Battle of Langside was a battle fought on May 13, 1568 between the forces of Mary Queen of Scots and a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother (who won the battle).

Langside, south of the River Clyde, is now a Glasgow district. The area of the battle has since been built over, and is now fairly near Hampden Park, the Scottish international football stadium. Queen's Park, the name of a park near the site of the battle, and from it the name of a football team, is named after Mary. Moray's army assembled on a hill which now stands with a flagpole in the middle of Queen's Park, and the Queen's army assembled on a smaller hill, Clincart Hill, very near the present site of Mount Florida railway station and now occupied by [Langside College] of Further Education.

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