October 2nd - The Battle of Largs

On this day, in 1263, a battle near the town of Largs, in Scotland, was fought between the Scots and the Norwegians. It was the most important battle in the Socttish-Norwegian war. So not that important really.

Much of Scotland had been occupied by the Norwegians from 1100. And since 1240 the Scottish King had been trying to buy the conquered areas back. The Norwegian King refused to sell, so like all dissatisfied customers, the Scottish King declared war.

When the Norwegian King heard of this he launched "the biggest fleet ever to leave Norway", which consisted of four of those long viking boats, and a number of drunk soldiers wandering into the icy cold surf. They were never seen again.

Peace talks were held but went nowhere because both armies had assembled and it seemed a shame to get everyone together and not go through with it. That would be dissappointing.

The real fighting kicked off when five Norwegian boats were forced ashore by a storm. The two sides engaged in rock throwing and name calling before the Norwegians regrouped and headed back onto the water.

That was the end of that. Both sides decided fun's fun but this was getting stupid. Thus ended the Scottish-Norwegian war's most important and dissapointing battle.