Until 1297 the heavily armed and mounted knight had been an invincible force on the battlefield. Stirling Bridge was the first battle in Europe to see a common army of spearmen defeat a feudal host.

Wallace was the younger son of a Scottish knight and minor landowner. His name, Wallace or le Waleis, means the Welshman, and he was probably descended from Richard Wallace who had followed the ...

Braveheart, Mel Gibson’s 1995 film about William ... of Stirling Bridge represented Wallace’s only major military victory in ...

Edward I offered a generous ransom to anyone who killed or captured William ... Edward I. Wallace was hanged, drawn and quartered on 23 August 1305. His limbs were displayed in Stirling, Perth ...

Predating the William Wallace monument in Stirling by more than 50 years, the statue was sculpted from local sandstone by John Smith of Darnick. Wallace is depicted in medieval Scottish armour ...

Earl of Surrey, Govenor in Scotland for Edward I of ... It has been four months since the rising of William Wallace and Andrew Murray began. Near Stirling Castle he arrives at a narrow, wooden ...