The Battle of the Pass of Brander in Scotland forms a small part of the wider struggle known as the Wars of Scottish Independence, and a large part of the civil war between the Bruce and Balliol facti
Eastern end of Pass of Brander, dammed in 1959
Battle of the Pass of Brander
Sir James Douglas was a Scottish knight and feudal lord. He was one of the chief commanders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Statue of Douglas at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
A Victorian depiction of Sir James (third from left), and other leaders of the Wars of Independence by William Hole
Tomb of Sir James, St Bride's Kirk, Douglas
All that remains of the house that stood on the site of Douglas Castle is this seventeenth-century tower which was spared demolition in 1938.