Battle of Langside
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.
