713 years ago today in 1305 A.D, the ScottishKnight and former Guardian of Scotland, Sir WilliamWallace, was arrested at Robroyston outsideGlasgow by English troops after being turned overby the Sheriff of Dumbarton, the Scottish knightJohn de Menteith who subsequently became knownas Mentieth the treacherous. Wallace was thereaftertaken south to London and tried for treason inWestminster […]
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The Battle of Bannockburn
705 years ago today in 1314 A.D., the armies of Robert the Bruce King of Scots and King Edward II of England crashed upon each other in a storm of blood and steel at the infamous Battle of Bannockburn (modern depiction of the Bruce at the frontlines by Andrew Hillhouse pictured). Though the Scottish victory […]
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The Battle of Faughart
700 years ago today in 1318 A.D., in an age ofgreat famine and pestilence, on the edge of theknown world in Ireland, Edward Bruce, claimant tothe throne of Ireland and brother of the betterremembered King Robert the Bruce of Scotland, methis doom at the Battle of Faughart in county Louth,outside Dundalk, by Hiberno-Norman forces led […]
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