Hello Steemit! Welcome to my publication, today I want to witness a hero, a liberator and a warrior, his mythical name is emblematic in the world, he is: William Wallace, the Scottish hero of his nation that still today. He crushed the English with his huge sword, five feet long.
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On September 11, 1297, William Wallace, Scottish warrior and national hero, who lived in the second half of the thirteenth century, crushed the English, along with Andrew de Moray, at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, a site that was not knows exactly but that it should have been located in the river Forth, near Stirling, in the center of Scotland.
Wallace was originally from Scotland, where he was born in April 1270, in the middle of the Middle Ages.
He belonged to a family of rich landowners that allowed him to access an elite education.
Wallace was born in the heyday of the reign of Alexander III, however, upon his death in 1286 tensions began to emerge between the two most important families of the Scottish aristocracy that undermine the stability that the Scottish kingdom was able to build and maintain for years .
The granddaughter of Alexander was the heir to the throne but he was not yet old enough to take over, so a council took over the government.
Disputes over the Scottish throne unleash the British raid in Scotland and the subsequent confrontation
With clear intentions to take over Scotland, the English King Edward I intends to marry his heir with Alexander's granddaughter but the death of the girl truncates the strategy and violent disputes are generated by the throne among Scottish noble families.
Eduardo I is proposed as referee but before the impossibility of mediating he decides to invade Scotland in the year 1296.
This action caused discontent among some Scots like Wallace, defenders at all costs of their independence, and then decided to go to the resistance and fight the invaders.
The defense of Scotland
Little by little, Wallace, put together a group of warriors who would deliver successful attacks on English bulbs.
In its mission, Wallace, is with the support of one of the most important knights of Scotland as was Andrew de Moray and so it is that both with his men attack a key point of the English, the castle of Stirling, with great success.
This national defense caused Wallace and Moray to gain popular affection.
In 1297, Wallace decides to go in depth in his fight and attacks England in a very efficient and unexpected way by his rivals.
From that moment the English king began to consider him the great enemy to defeat.
The confrontations between the Scottish families by the throne continued and Eduardo I takes advantage to return to invade Scotland but with more vehemence.
Moray was no longer with Wallace because he had died some time before and so Wallace had to resist what he had and it was impossible to overcome the enemy force.
The great sword that the English feared
This sword has its doubts if it is original or not, many say that it is an exact copy of the original, others say it is the original. The truth here is that it is mythical and great sword of a meter and a half long was the fear of the English.
Currently it is preserved since 1888 in a large glass urn at the National Wallace Monument in Stirling. It is a huge stroke of 1.2 cms. of thickness, of 168 cms. long and a sheet of 132 cms. of length, of which it has not been possible to certify its origin, but to which the popular beliefs keep in a deep and reverent secret.
After all, it is the sword of a myth, as one day it was Tizona, the sword of the Cid. It is the sword of its hero, of the rebel William Wallace, and protagonist of the most important episode of the History of a whole country, Scotland.
Defeat and cruel murder
Wallace and his men were defeated in 1298 at the Battle of Falkirk.
The Scottish hero was able to save his life by hiding for a while.
Before being handed over by his compatriots who wanted to sign a treaty with the English king, Wallace, he held meetings with European leaders to get support but he did not get it.
In 1305 he was arrested, tried and sentenced to death for treason to the king.
He was treated as a criminal and traitor, and not as an enemy soldier. Several brutal punishments were applied to him in succession: they dragged him naked, hung him to hang him with the prudence that his neck was not broken, and then he was taken down before he died. It is said that, still alive, he was emasculated and eviscerated and burned his organs before him. Finally, they cut off his head. Their rest were conserved and they were distributed by England.
Legend has it that he endured the punishments without regrets or complaints and that the public ended up demanding clemency in the face of brutality. What is certain is that Scotland ended up gaining its independence in 1314 after winning at the Battle of Bannockburn thanks to the troops of the then King Robert of Bruce, culminating the legacy of the value of William Wallace.
Legacy
the figure of William Wallace is still mythical today, lives in every Scottish heart and always gave inspiration to liberators of the 20th and 19th century, allowing to create new gaps.
William Wallace for Demacros. Source: DeviantArt
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