Tillicoultry at the foot of the Ochil Hills was the site of a Scottish ambush of an English patrol during the confused fighting of the 1330s. The Ochil Hills provided defensible high ground from which Scottish partisans could observe and intercept English forces moving between the Forth valley and Perthshire. These small engagements, individually insignificant, collectively kept the Scottish resistance alive during the worst years of the Second War.
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