A Dark Day in Scotland’s Story: The Execution of William Wallace
- Drummond Scottish Tours
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“I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance. He is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he never shall receive it.”
Our greatest hero, William Wallace, is executed in the most inhumane way (hung, drawn and quartered), on this day, 23rd August, 1305 at the hands of the ‘Hammer of the Scots’, Edward I, King of England, and a nation seethes with anger and prepares to rise again.
Perhaps the great William Wallace would take solace if he knew of the great rising of his nation over the following nine years, and the achievements of Robert the Bruce in overcoming both the English forces, and the corrupt Scottish Lords who allied themselves with the tyrant.
Within 17 years of William’s only victory, at Stirling Bridge in 1297, the Scots would rout the massive English army at Bannockburn. Then six years later, the Declaration of Arbroath would set Scotland on the road to freedom.
Surely, we can happily attribute these events as both Bruce’s achievements and Wallace’s legacy.
A both terrible and great period of Scottish history, known as the 1st war of Scottish Independence... and all achieved without a blue face or kilt in sight!
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