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Largs

A holiday resort on the Firth of Clyde. Burns refers to the battle of Largs in his 'poem Caledonia, A Ballad'. It took placein 1263, when Alexander III defeated King Haakon, thus breaking the Norse power in Scotland:
"But brave Caledonia in vain they assail'd,
As Largs well can witness and Loncartie tell."
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