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.

Braveheart, Mel Gibson’s 1995 film about William Wallace ... The Battle of Stirling Bridge represented Wallace’s only major ...

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 ...

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 ...

An act of exploration, celebration and homage to Scotland’s greatest hero: Sir William Wallace. Stirling Bridge was an ...

It has been four months since the rising of William Wallace and Andrew Murray began. Near Stirling Castle he arrives at a narrow, wooden bridge which crosses The River Forth. There, on the ...

Seven months after the Battle of Stirling Bridge ... One of those people was a man called William Wallace. We don't know much about Wallace's early life but in 1297, he is reported to have ...