A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain.

March 25, 1708

A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain.

Fife Ness is a headland forming the most eastern point in Fife, Scotland. Anciently the area was called Muck Ross, which is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic Muc-Rois meaning "Headland of the Pigs". It is situated in the area of Fife known as the East Neuk, and forms the muzzle of the dog-like outline of the latter when viewed on a map. Ness is an archaic Norse word meaning "nose".

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