The Battle of Stirling Bridge

This is Stirling Bridge but it is far downstream from the original wooden bridge were the battle was fought.

On the 11th of September 1297, the First War of Scottish Independence took place, where Andrew Moray, William Wallace, and their armies defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth, at The Battle of Stirling Bridge.

That sounds entirely way to much like a school paper. (Coming from me, that is a criticism.)

At the Battle of Stirling Bridge, William Wallace and his friend, Andrew de Moray, defeated the English against the odds. I have read many different estimated numbers for how many men were in each army, but in all of them the English always had significantly more than the Scottish.

I think that the story of the Battle of Sterling Bridge is most interesting. You see, the thing about William Wallace and the Battle of Sterling Bridge is that it sounds like something out of a book, like a fictional book. Anyhow. One very interesting and almost comical thing (there are a few of those in the story) is that a Scottish traitor told the English of a ford not far down stream were a great many of them could cross the water quite easily, but they insisted on taking their very large army across this little bitty narrow wooden bridge. How silly was that?

There is so very much that I could say, so very many interesting things I could write, but I have decided that since I have been working on these posts for a long while and I am quite busy at the present, I will just have a link to the place that has it all:

http://skyelander.orgfree.com/menu3.html

It was truly a great battle.