-1297-The Year of WILLIAM WALLACE The Battle of Stirling Bridge In the spring of 1297, after his wife had been murdered by the Sheriff of Lanark, William Wallace and a group of his supporters stole into the town late at night. Wallace made his way to the home of Hesilrig and gained revenge for the death of his beloved Marion. The garrison of English soldiers were put to the sword and from surrounding towns and villages men ‘who were bitter of heart, and weighted down by the burden of bondage flocked to his banner’. During the early sum me months of 1297, Wallace and his volunteer army marched throughout Scotland capturing Castles and Towns, driving the invaders south.
In their march north, the towns of Glasgow, Scone, Perth, Dundee and all the land north of the Forth and Clyde was Liberated by the Scottish army. Eventually they reached Aberdeen, routed the Garrison troops and ‘destroyed the fleet of 100 English ships’. On the 11 th Sept 1297, William Wallace and that other noble Scottish Knight Andrew De Moray, along with patriots consisting mainly of the common people of Scotland charged down onto the field by Stirling bridge and flung themselves into ‘the mightiest army in christiandom.’ Against a force of 1, 000 heavy cavalry and 50, 000 foot soldiers, the volunteer Scottish Army fought and defeated the might of Edward Long shanks invading army. The Scots fought with home-made weapons; knives, axes; wooden spears. But they fought for the survival of their nation, a desire for freedom and a belief in one man; William Wallace. ‘ FREEDOM IS BEST I TELL THEE TRUE OF ALL THINGS NEVER LIVE WITHIN THE BOND OF SLAVERY MY SON ‘;.
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