Falkirk

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 19

(Scot. pron. faw'kürk,) a town of Scotland, co. Stirling, 24 miles N.N.W. of Edinburgh, near which Sir W. Wallace was defeated by Edward I. of England, 1296, and also, in 1746, the English army by that of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Pop. 9,000. [s. 354]