Who Was The Real William Wallace? | Braveheart: Fact or Fiction | Timeline

Anyone who has read a detective story knows that appearances can be deceiving Just over 700 years ago, this innocent piece of land witnessed a brutal murder that changed the course of Scottish history forever in May 12 97, the Lenexa sheriff William Historic was hacked to death here by a young Scottish patriot his name William Wallace or as we know him Braveheart Wallace was a legend a national hero but I have come here to try to find the man behind the legend if you have ever seen the movie Braveheart forget it, it's a great piece of entertainment but not an accurate guide.

I have come to central Scotland to find the truth about Wallace beneath the schools,

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ories and housing estates there is a trail of blood, but whether it leads to a hero or a villain. Depends where you come from Wallace was the first Scottish champion in England's cruel wars of independence, he is a Scottish icon to this day, but he was certainly no saint. Wallace was the quintessential African faith and he was loved by his country when his country needed him. he is accused of getting choruses of naked Englishmen and women, the singing of this was particularly gruesome, he was a helpless man, a second son of an unimportant gentleman and yet he had something in him that people responded to, he must to have been an extraordinary man we should never have heard of William Wallace and perhaps we would not have except for an accident of history when Wallace was born there was no war with England Scotland was prosperous life was good then disaster struck the Scottish king Alexander the Third had been teasing the performance at Edinburgh Castle Late at night and in probably the worst place, he ignored his courtier's advice and insisted on returning home to blow the horn on the other side of the third or fourth .

He just married a beautiful princess his age. But whether it was a midlife crisis or a noble desire to fulfill his royal duties, it was his death somewhere along the way. He got lost and his horse later stumbled and fell. He was found here with a broken neck 600 years later. The Victorians erected this monument to commemorate the event. He says without a hint of irony that it was erected on the scene of his death. It was rarely because libido was so costly that Scotland was plunged into a crisis. Powerful rival

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ions took up arms from the country and crept into civil society. war without a leader will have to choose my king, almost God chooses kings, but in this case there will have to be some kind of earthly intervention, it could not happen within Scotland because that would imply that the Scottish nobility was superior to the king. has to be a great international figure and Edward the first nearest neighbor of Scotland great reputation in Europe he is the man to do it they would ask Edward the first was a ruthless expansionist he had already annexed Wales and Ireland the crisis gave him the opportunity to incorporate Scotland to his empire under the pretext of preventing civil war, Edward took control of Scotland at NorAm Castle.

He had the Scottish nobles recognize him as their liege lord, the medieval equivalent of mob dons recognizing an overlord, which meant that when John Bailey was appointed. king he was Edwards and puppet the wild Scottish nobles gave in to the common people remained defined resistance leaders emerged from nowhere throughout Scotland He hated the occupying forces it is around this time that stories of a fierce young man who is William Wallace began to circulate a typical story of Wallace fishing in a river when suddenly five English soldiers appear and demand his capture and while he says you must be joking but offers them half anyway, one of the English soldiers is very furious, but some simple sportsmen should To give him the cheek, he draws his sword and rushes forward. in Wallace Wallace immediately Paris with his fishing rod snatches the man's sword and cuts off his head, then kills two of the other soldiers before the others escape.

Who was this Wallace? Everyone was asking, we still don't know what these photos looked like. From much more recent times, the only clues we have to his appearance are accounts that tell of an arrow scar and his neck, to general agreement that he was enormous, perhaps six foot six or more, he was also much younger. that this, about 26 years, but where if it had come from there, a Scottish chronicler called Blind Harry tells us that the Wallace family, meaning they were originally from Wales, settled at Elders Lee, just south of Glasgow , with the flimsiest of evidence that the old Victorians did what they do best and erected a monument, but now archeology has backed up the tradition, so what would have been on this side when Wallace was alive?

Oh, this is the site where Wallace four was born and there would have been a fortification here. There was an archaeological excavation carried out in 1998. a hedge that runs right through the site here and shows the outline of the original wooden palisade that would have surrounded the fortified property when you start 45 property, what would it have looked like? There would have been a whole lot of some kind made of wood or stone surrounded by a wooden palisade on this road that they were actually walking along right now it is actually at the site of the ditch as I see that a great here on 98 which is a mountain range and the ditch still exists. carved out of solid stone and it's right under this path we were walking right now, but what does that mean about Bruce's family politics?

Family and middle class. I'd see every oh, you were looking at him with a sillier tear you'd see in between. upper middle class perhaps in 1270 would have looked like this on the high ground was the northeast corner of a fortified village run by the nobles were descended from the Norman aristocracy and although they would have considered themselves a Scotsman probably still he would have spoken French within the family, but here's the strange thing: the only record of Wallace's youth tells us that he was taught by monks and that he was going to be a priest, it is possible because the church was a traditional option for the minor nobility. with no land to inherit, but the only physical evidence we have suggests that Wallace embarked on a less pious career, we know this from the seal that was discovered a few years ago that has a ball in the middle that he probably saw himself in first place. as an archer now, that probably didn't mean he was a soldier necessarily, he may have been a bit on the poaching side of deer hunting, but yeah, he has, he would have had to make his own way.

He wouldn't be given any land and I don't think there is any evidence in the facts. It's pretty clear that he himself didn't have any land, so he has to make his own way. So it's likely that Wallace was a little terrifying. it turned out well when history gave him a cause the first had his hooks in Scotland he never surrendered in 1296 after repeated humiliations his mother king John Balliol recovered the Scots gathered an army and attacked the north of England it was just the excuse that Edward was looking for he marched north this is a very quiet tweed today it is in England, of course, but seven centuries ago it was one of the most important and prosperous towns in Scotland when Edward advanced looking for a fight with the rebellious Scots, the people of Barrack gave him the perfect opportunity to One of them, some English merchants had been murdered here and their goods looted by the locals.

Eduardo decided to set an example with them. He followed it, shocking even the parties and the English chroniclers of the time. He unleashed thousands of trained assassins against an unsuspecting band of lightly armed civilians there. There wasn't much resistance. You see, that Land Rover over there, we'll go a little further, there's a building called the Red Tower and some Belgian merchants raise their arrows and killed Edward's cousin, so finally he personally ordered his deaths by burning them. alive but it wasn't just Edward who wanted blood soon the scream echoed from the entire army havoc havoc which means looting looting that's where we take our word from there it would have been chaos the men would have been automatically killed the women raped first The Chronicles say that the slaughter lasted three days and only stopped when Edward saw one of his men hacking to death a woman who was actually in the process of giving birth.

They say that half the population of Beric was massacred and upriver the tweed ran red. As the bodies piled up in the massacre at the barracks was only the beginning, Edward crushed the Scottish army, imprisoned John Bailey in the Tower of London and took the Stone of Destiny, the symbol of Scottish royalty, to Westminster, where it remained for 700 years, apparently. total capitulation the story goes that as Edward was leaving Scotland he turned to the earl he was about to put in charge and told him the wealth of Bombay fete ketta mail delivery in other words the guy getting rid of him is doing a

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ly good job, thought Edwards who got rid of the problem of Scotland he thought that by conquering the nobles he was conquering the people but he was wrong William Wallace was about to make it very clear to you and he was the first who thought he had taught the nobles a lesson Scots but the Massacre and Barrack had exactly the opposite effect across the country.

Spontaneous opposition broke out and then, in 1297, William Wallace burst onto the scene, but according to the Chronicles it was not public atrocities at Barrack that brought him into the spotlight, but a private grudge here. in Lana The Chronicles tell the story of how Wallace fell in love. He saw a maiden at mass here. Instantly Kent against Church and instantly fell in love. She was Marian Bradford, from nearby Lamington. The story goes that Wallace had a clandestine love affair and eventually married Marian. but lanit's English sheriff William hassel rig also had his eyes on Wallace's girl when Wallace got into a loose-legged skirmish with Hester before they could arrest him.

Marian helped him escape to the hills in revenge and filled with lustful hatred she had already killed Marian. In the massacre, Wallace returned under the cover of darkness to exact revenge. Today, there is almost nothing left of Lana Carson. The Lana Thistle Bowling Club occupies the site of Hessel Fort. Rick. Hillary would not have expected Wallace to return, but she did in May 12.97. He and his men probably came to the city one by one or two by two and then banded together ready to take revenge. The attack was swift and terrible. Wallace went straight to the sheriff's house, surprising him in his bed, a blow from his huge sword pierced him. the sheriff's skull until his death in the collarbone would have been instantaneous the young follower made sure by stabbing the inert body three times then the Scottish merchants became enraged killing the English at will, saving only women and priests the murder of Hassel Rig is the first documented reference we have of Wallace but the love story may well be

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after all Wallace was an outlaw and the sheriff was the local judge perhaps Wallace simply killed him to avoid prosecution for some other crime it could be that he was already more beyond the law he was kind of an outlaw, if you've been poaching he might even be beyond the law in Scotland and maybe he was someone on the wrong side of the road who kind of got by because he was wearing a coat blue and because of his success, the legends stick to Wallace like glue, he is an archer and kills the local sheriff.

Now, at that time, stories of other fugitive nobles like Robin Hood were very popular. We know that Wallace's maid Marian only appears in later versions of the story. Perhaps the chroniclers wanted to turn Wallace into a Scottish version. of Robin Hood and that's why they also gave Wallace his Maid Marian since we're talking about myths and legends because it's probably a good time to admit that Wallace was never called Braveheart, that's the name that belonged to that other Scottish hero, Robert the Bruce. After his death, when his Braveheart was put in a coffin and taken into battle, sorry, Wallace's murder of the sheriff of Lanna made his reputation, people began to flock to his cause, the gang from outlaws it became the militia and then an army and at its head, and none of the elders.

Well, that's it, that's the key, isn't it? If Wallace's personality suddenly must have been an extraordinary man, we should never have heard of William Wallace and we wouldn't have if it weren't for this war. He obviously had leadership qualities but I think he also had that determination, that devotion to a cause or a cause, which in this case was Scottish independence, which meant he knew there was no other path for him and I think it's just one of them. extraordinary people in history who do extraordinary things because of their small personality, not because of the situation they find themselves in there, but Wallace was not alone in the highlands, a young nobleman called Andrew Murray had been waging an equally successful guerrilla campaign when Wallace joined forces.

With Murray, the rebellion became a revolution,The English had to act. Edward the First, who was fighting in France, ordered a formidable army north to separate the rebels who were forcing their way into the Highlands, it was the Mighty River force, why Marie decided to take on the English. at the crossing point its name echoed in history Stirling Bridge in 1297 the bridge held the key to the fortresses in the highlands as this 13th century map graphically demonstrates if the English were to take Scotland they had no choice but cross Woloson Murray decided that a battle at Stirling Bridge was his best chance of defeating the powerful English army, but surprisingly it was not this Stirling Bridge, the exact location of Wallace's greatest triumph was a mystery until recently, no one could find the foundations of the original bridge. and you find the battlefield, then the amateur archaeologists decided to test a local tradition that the bridge was upstream from the current one with some local technology.

I don't understand how you managed to see those wells. It's very lucky, but there are times of year when the freshwater goes down gracefully and we used an old method that paddlefish have used which was to make a wooden bucket with a glass bottom and they could see that the freshwater mussels They are on the river bed, but it is very effective and they are sunny and if you put your head right and exclude the light here on the edge it is a wonderful vision look for the river bed You should be able to see yes, I have everything solution to the rules no It's very easy to use but review mark 2 should pay some of this you could make a Fortuna, yes the old city seal from Wallace's time shows a flat wooden platform atop eight stone pillars.

Everyone had been looking for a bridge that would cross the river in a straight line, but you don't need eight piers for a straight bridge, what they discovered was that the piers crossed the river diagonally, no one knows why, but it means that the number of pairs It fits perfectly for a bridge that looked like this. This narrow structure was a key part of Wallace's plans. The Scots had positioned themselves on the high ground on the north side of the river in 1297. This is what Wallace may have seen. He and his lightly armed foot soldiers would have had a clear idea of ​​the task they faced.

Looking south of the river, they could see the English as they prepared for battle at Stirling Castle. Tales from the shadow of Stirling Castle say that the English had brought a thousand horsemen and fifty thousand infantry to meet the spears and daggers of the rebels; They outnumbered the Scots by as much as ten to one; Well, it was their menu, it was the success or failure of the English army. That team was considered a Matthias Phaeton machine in Christendom. Wallace must have been a dynamic leader, but yet he has made the belief that they could win not only against superior numbers, but against far more superior almonds, horses, weaponry, even money when it comes to and.

Even in the water, they were outnumbered. Wallace used Scotland's own land to assist in the fourth round of loot, leaving an area of ​​marshy ground between the English and the Scots. This was crossed by a single causeway which followed the same course as the present road. and this narrow road caused a bottleneck; the logistics of getting so many numbers onto the battlefield would have created a scene like the start of the London Marathon. He made some of the English knights nervous because while the nobles discussed tactics, the tithe increased. The marshy area was further delayed and a decision would prove fatal.

Three times the English crossed the bridge and three times they retreated. Dominican friars were sent to offer Wallace terms of peace, but the message returned: we have not come for peace but to avenge our In the country, the upstart was eager to fight and the English were happy to oblige Wallace and Marie did not. They could believe their luck. The enemy was about to fall into his trap. The narrow bridge could only support two horses at a time while the heavily armed mounted Knights. They left the road to form a battle line. The terrain became too rugged for an effective charge.

The English probably expected the Scots to wait until everyone had crossed the bridge and lined up properly, that was chivalry etiquette, but Wallace and Marie were not like that, they were street fighters involved in a last attempt to save their country, They waited until just the right amount of English had crossed, enough to fight and enough to kill, and then Wallace blew a single blast on his horn, the Scotsman. They rushed out of their stronghold on the high ground beyond where that white bungalow is, attacked on both flanks and cut off the English retreat back to the bridge with no room to form and completely unable to manoeuvre.

The English were trapped Scott / - the hands of their horses froze and stabbed their bellies and as the horses fell the English were mortal it was the university The Chronicles report 5000 English dead the victory was against all odds the native cunning and spirit had defeated by numbers, money and equipment the English retreated in disarray to this day, Sterling Bridge symbolizes an unwavering sense of national pride, whatever the southern neighbors do, and on the same grass where Wallace's men splashed in the mud to take down the English cavalry, awakens a new generation of warriors who fight for pride and glory.

Rica, there is a sense of history here, I mean, I believe it because I am also the history teacher, I know that rugby coach, but I feel and I think that the children feel that this is an old woman, it is surprising when you tell this story. of the battle you could hear a pin drop because there is a sense of pride like a sense of achievement that you can feel among the students, sure you know that you lose the atmosphere a little bit later, but at that moment there is just something about them that just they feel like yeah, yeah, we did this here.

William Wallace was a national hero, but now he was alone. His partner Andrew Murray had been one of the few Scottish victims. However, the Scottish stories were current. Wallace decided to take the battle to the English. The next time they saw the avenger Scott it would be their turn. What was William Wallace

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ly like to the Scots? He was the hero of Stirling Bridge, Victor of the hated English, aged 27, but his partner Andrew Murray died. Wallace kept everything. the glory and that success make it difficult to find the real man the ballads and myth began almost immediately the scottish chronicles are more celebrations of a legend than objective stories I think there are several reasons why Wallis is a legend Wallis represents resistance Scottish national in a In the most extraordinary way, I want to say that this was a man who completely changed the course.

The English appear to have dealt with Scotland in 1296. The Scottish nobility had capitulated to John Bailey. The king had abdicated miserably and you know, no one stood up and Scotland rose with him. and you know that it is a tremendous achievement, there is no doubt about that football match with rival fans, you know that there are always two ways of looking at any incident, the English hated Wallis, for them he was a terrorist, they have broken the chivalrous rules of the war in football terms. who had carried out the penalty before the people were ready and what happened next seems to confirm that Wallace had a much darker side Boyd with his sterling success Wallace took the north of England by storm it was time for the Scots to vent their fury, the English chronicles to Bullitt stories about Wallace's savagery, he set fire to monasteries and laughed while monks drowned in front of him, he massacred women and burned schools with schoolchildren inside, rapes, torture and atrocities marked his progress through across borders, shocked an old man hardened by brutality.

To evoke contemporary parallels, the English very explicitly accused Wallace of effective ethnic cleansing, that his intention was to get rid of all English speakers in the north of England, even the Scottish chronicles realized there was a problem, They said he tried to prevent the excesses of his men by defending. The priests at the altar, on the other hand, did not hide their hatred of all Englishmen, making Milus either a national hero or a war criminal. The National Wallace Monument is the great Victorian expression of his legendary status. It dominates the landscape of Wallace's great triumph. In Stirling, Braveheart fans and Scots from around the world, including the South Florida branch of the Stewart clan, come to pay tribute, but even here there is a grim recognition that there was little room for compromise in medieval warfare and that the executioner of said origin would then put this. through the back or front of the head and that's the cranial tip of him, if you knew Wallace as a person, he probably wasn't a guy you'd want on the wrong side, it was probably terrifying, it was probably enough. people in Scotland, but he feared or hated them.

At the time we see him as a national hero and we see him differently, but Wallace is one of the main inherent strengths, he was an Englishman killed where and when I found them, that was his job. and that's what he did so as not to confuse it with his office dagger that has two sharpened pages, one on the left and the other essentially. Wallace was a man of his time, he was a very violent man who lived in a violent time and he didn't put up with any nonsense. at all from the enemies and which of them as soon as he looks at them, but at the same time, here is a man who was a leader, a people, an underdog, a second son or an unimportant Knight and yet he had something in him what the people responded to and he guided them he had a vision he was loyal to his king he was fighting to join Belial he had loyalty he had a sense of purpose a sense of achievement he had a brain that could think of strategies no, I think there are many good aspects of Wallace's personality and character that you can focus on, but we try to say that those days are passing and we want to massacre the English upon their return from their campaign of terror along the English borders.

Wallace was possibly knighted by Robert the Bruce at the time. Sir William Wallace was appointed Guardian of Scotland in the king's absence. He had been given absolute power, although it is new that the English were not defeated. He immediately began preparations for the defense of the kingdom. He put taunts in every major city to deal with repeat offenders, another sign of his cruelty perhaps or simply a desperate recognition of the scale of the expected English response, very soon the king realized that if he wanted a job done correctly, he would have to do it himself the next time Wallace met the English army. would be led by King Edward, the English would not be fooled by another surprise attack, so to prepare for a clash with the heavily armored English cavalry, Wallace invented a battlefield tactic called shielding, the ranks of infantry Outnumbered they would form a huge circle of Lances for the charging Knights to meet a deadly giant hedgehog as a massive English army advanced from the south of Wallis, clearing burning fields and crops as it advanced.

His plan was to use a scorched earth policy to break English supply lines. It almost worked as the English army advanced increasingly hungry, there was no sign of the enemy, then in Edinburgh a scout reported that Wallace was just 20 miles away, in Falkirk, ready to attack if the English retreated. Edward ordered a forced march at dawn on July 23, 1298, English fortunes changed. The Chronicles tell us that as the English army advanced forward, they saw a flash of armor up here on the hill, it was Wallace spying on his enemy, but when an advance guard ran up here, he instead went there in front to the city of Falkirk, they could see the entire Scottish army finally preparing for battle.

No one knows why Wallace decided to stay and fight. The English were almost out of food and ready to retreat. He maybe he thought he could do it. Being outmatched and preferring to choose the battlefield of AB Stirling had made him overconfident in any case, the Battle of Falkirk was going to be crucial and yet incredibly no one was sure where it took place. The fragments of information we have from the Chronicles only refer to a mountainous area. overlooking the swampy terrain and watercourse, it could have been the site of the city center where the park is today, the rise just beyond the supermarket, the farmland under calendar forests or here the sites of the rooms of mothers near Edinburgh's main Falkirk Road, whatever the location, we know the story. of the day Wallace had his men stand on the high ground with four large circles of spearmen and between them he had his short archers behind his Minh cavalry ready to charge.

I have brought them to the ring, he says they are men. Now dance the English penny as best you canwave after wave of cavalry through the boggy terrain uphill and toward the waiting Scottish lances, but then two things happened that changed the course of the day and the future of Wallace's reputation: first, the Scottish nobility who formed his cavalry suddenly and they left and secondly the English brought their new secret weapon, the long range of the long bows was deadly, some thought it was against the rules of war, as horrible in its time as napalm , as effective as a machine gun, Wallis escaped with in his life, 10,000 of his men were not fair to Wallace, he had planned a strategy around what the English normally do, which is a major cavalry charge and that is why You have the short term please, this main talk from Spears and he had trained his Well, unless they have been practicing for quite some time, but what he couldn't have really foreseen was that Edward would deploy the archers the way he had.

He did and this is the beginning of the rise of the English goalkeeper. to such our preeminent position in the Hundred Years' War against France in the next century they are going to win, win battles and Wallace was paroled was the recipient of what he had planned, it's just that technology took over the people who They know the movie. It may be a surprise to learn that Falkirk wasn't the end for once, he was to continue his fight for seven more years before his horrible death from betrayal. Falkirk was annihilation. Wallace escaped with his life because of a tattered reputation.

His loyal foot. The soldiers have been massacred by English archers and if you believe that blind Harry is his cavalry had simply abandoned him Sir John Graham was one of the few nobles who remained at Wallace's side his remains lie in a completely cut cemetery, one of the three only marked graves out of 10,000 dead Wallace not only fought against the English, he also fought against the threat of his own nobility, possibly due to his lowborn or lowborn status compared to rank. Errol from Scotland, who was jealous of Wallace's sudden high standing in the community, what are you going to do?

You must not die, will you call me and live to fight again? I mean, it's already seven hundred years old, obviously, it was a terrible thing. I don't think Scottish calories could win that battle. No, no, they couldn't have done it, so I think they very wisely said, "Let's regroup. Try to think again so you don't think." the cavalry betrayed no, I don't think so, I think they were very sensible, they saw how things were going, I mean, what they could achieve, there is nothing, we could have done, what are they going to do, going down that hill towards Calvary, and be And be.

Completely massacred, we must remember that he himself survived the Battle of Falkirk, unlike many of the men in this short, demoted from his role as Guardian of Scotland and with his troops decimated, it appears that Wallace returned to the land he knew best. hiding the Selkirk Woods while regrouping Edward I had beaten the Scots into military submission when Wallace Ria was not as a soldier but as a diplomat while he was Warden Wallace had been used to playing on the international stage while so many other things have been incredibly lost, we have one of Wallace's own letters he was writing to Lübeck merchants in Germany basically saying that Scotland was open for business now in the wake of the military disaster.

It seems that Wallace took the political initiative against the hated Edward. Another letter that has been lost. Since it was lost it shows that Wallace made trips to the King of France and the Pope to try to gain political support. It was the equivalent of an appeal to the United Nations at the time. It was a unilateral action not supported by the nobles who attempted it. to appease Edward while consolidating his position, so do you think that in his later years Wallace would have been a bit of a political loose weapon like Edward Heath or Arthur Skov?

I think this is exactly the way to describe Wallace, although he does it when he arrives. Returning from the continent in 1303, he joins the rest of the Scottish nobility, he is one of the leaders of the Scottish army and that is quite interesting, he is one of many, but when the Scots decide if John Comyn of badnik will be the sole guardian in that period. that Scotland has had enough and that perhaps they should submit to Edward, whether they thought this was just a temporary measure or not. Wallace could not accept that he is not the only one but he is the main one and I think that the majority of the Scottish nobility and the The Scots is not just the nobility, many of the Scots also had enough and would have thought in shock, but Wallace couldn't he kept quiet and continued fighting the way he knew best as an outlaw, while everyone else, including Robert the Bruce.

We went with the flow Wallace stayed one step ahead of the law we went straight to the top of Edwards' most wanted list the shocking thing was that when the end came it was not an Englishman who captured Wallace but he was actually betrayed for a skort that was an English pea, but a lot of problems in Scotland are essentially not, was succinctly summarized by Robert Buns, who said that we are bought and sold by the English in 1305. Wallace was eventually betrayed to the English At this time, most of Scotland's nobles were reverting to the rule of the Redwoods again and one of their tests of loyalty was whether or not they were prepared to try to capture Wallace, but ultimately the betrayal was not just political, but personal.

The man chosen to close the trap around him was Sir John. Menteith, a particular friend of Wallace who was godfather to his two children, surprised Wallace here in Rob Royston, on the outskirts of Glasgow, there was a struggle, eventually Wallace was subdued and dragged south of the border to avoid any chance of rescue. . 17 days after receiving bruises, he arrived in London on 23 August Wallis was brought before the King's Bench at the Royal Palace of Westminster this was the largest freestanding building in Europe in 1305 it was the intimidating setting for a spectacle Tom Wallace remained in silence in front of his accusers as they charged charge after charge read aloud, only spoke once when accused of treason against Edward, shouted that he could never have committed treason as he had never given his allegiance to anyone but the rightful king of Scotland , but in the end the odds were against Wallace, the trial ended.

It was more about humiliation than justice. While he was in this place, he declared himself sentenced for treason. Wallace was to be hanged, naked, with his feet tied to the tails of two horses. They dragged him through the city of London. His head hit the cobblestones. The crowds of London miraculously pelted him with rubbish when he arrived here he was still conscious in those days this was known as plain field it was just outside the city walls today we know it is a field Smith the site of the famous London meat market and here right around the back of some big hospital they massacred William Wallace now in Wallace's case, of course, in his hanging, he would be hanging there, suffocated, with a purple face, me starting from his head, arms and legs bloodshot, fighting, Jack dictating that you would probably be incontinent of urine and feces feces now this requires great skill on the part of the executioner because he has to cut you while you are still conscious drawn his cut open your belly with a knife take out your guts take his knife and give it away crudely throw the guts into the fire, if he was still a little alive he could smell his own intestines burning and then package the body.

Oh, probably using max, take out the heart, cut it up, show it to the clowns now, the heart would still be beating. Wallis would already be there. The problem with brain days is that I see the heart beating because the heart will continue after brain death to continue beating for several minutes. After half an hour I saw the well-known Wallis phenomenon, his head was displayed on London Bridge, the four parts of his dismembered body were sent to the Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Stirling barracks, the scene of his greatest triumph to warm up the Scots and that should have been it and thirty-five Wallis had died a failure, his reputation as a military genius shattered after just nine months.

For the next seven years, he was unable to prevent Scotland from falling under Edwards' rule, but like many heroes who died young, his death sealed his immortality. Wallace's legacy is his lasting achievement. One of them is that his executions inspired Robert Bruce to take up his mantle. Years later, Bruce invoked Wallace's spirit before the decisive Battle of Bannerman that established the independence Wallace had long fought for for months, nearly five centuries later. Robert Burns, who grew up in the same woods where Wallace used to hide, was inspired by Bruce's tribute. wrote Scott's where, hey, it has become Wallace's and as a symbol of what he represents when the first stone of the Wallace Monument that brought Stalin 70 or 80 thousand people turned out on Tasya's day, so it meant something to the people Even in the days when Scotland was seen as the north of Britain and every time Scotland's future has been put in doubt, Wallace's shadow is there, a lesser man could have simply given up, but Wallace kept trying.

It is true that he was not very successful, but he remained absolutely consistent for the Scottish cause and I think it is therefore no surprise that this man has become a symbol of Scottish nationalism in a completely justifiable way. He is crucial to the Scottish psyche and how Scots feel about themselves and is the symbol of pure Scotland. He has no comparison to any symbol he has. Sometimes I wonder how we women really feel about Wallace, but he is very important as someone we can admire without leaving a trace or having had any conversation with England, but as a man of the people, Wallace came to represent personal freedom as well. .

As Scottish independence, this is the only Falkirk stone where Wallace is said to have spied on English miners in Scotland. Two hundred years ago, local miners freed from bondage began a tradition that endures to this day of marching here in Wallace's name to affirm their status as free men. I came to Scotland in search of a national hero, but the man I found was much more complex and ambiguous than the well-known legendary character with his exploits, of course, Wallis was a man of his time, he was a brutal man in a brutal time, but his absolute insistence that no man or group should be able to dominate another against their wishes makes him for me not just a Scottish hero but a universal hero.