Battle of Bannockburn 1314 Line of Fire

[@damaia101]

Wow. This documentary was from a time where History Channel was infact about History and not about aliens and pawnshops. This is History itself!

[@horatiohuffnagel7978]

+damaia101 I love watching these old shows. Its not intellectual gold but it is ten times better than watching anything nowadays. They just repeat themselves for an hour with commercials every ten minutes. Pathetic.

[@Ubique2927]

damaia101 .. History channel is doomed. I also remember when CNN was a news channel!

[@odertube]

Back when the History Channel was actually about History and not pawn shops. Also, I love the song Scots, wha hae. I look forward to it each year in January when we celebrate the life of Robert Burns.

[@jimsy5530]

Remember watching these when I was little, really excellent programmes. Thanks for publishing!

[@scotusayefreeman1297]

'Scots, wha hae wi Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome tae yer gory bed, Or tae victorie. 'Now's the day, an now's the hour: See the front o battle lour, See approach proud Edwards's power - Chains and Slaverie. 'Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha will fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn an flee. 'Wha, for Scotland's king and law. Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or Freeman fa, Let him on wi me. 'By Oppression's woes and pains, By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free. 'Lay the proud usurpers low, Tyrants fall in every foe, Liberty's in every blow! - Let us do or dee.

[@apspacking]

Ian MacFreeman I only see unjust bloodshed to satisfy wealthy kings greed. In my eye, killing has nothing to be proud of. Poor, young, brave, British pay a huge price without gaining a penny for themselves but to make their bloody kings richer and wealthier. When poor will stop sacrificing his blood to secure and add to the wealthy's properties? Unfortunately same or even more bloody cases was and is happening all over the world.

[@cuddlybear9041]

Ian MacFreeman I love history especially Scottish history as I am Scottish, thanks for the documentary, very interesting !

[@realmccoy3020]

After all these centuries, one thing remains constant: the English did not give a crap about you then and they don't give a crap about you now!

[@LittleTed1000]

Real McCoy Perhaps. That doesn't negate the fact that countries forming into unions is the way forward in 2014. The USA is a union. Europe is a union. Breaking out on your own might have made sense in 1314 but I'm not sure it does now.

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

+Real McCoy Lol, you obviously do, otherwise you wouldn't be biting WEE man! GIRUY

[@billygibb4479]

Best documentary ever

[@dennishanans533]

Well done! I enjoyed that.

[@29091947]

Ian why is Edward the First's last advance to Scotland shown on your map as through the North East of England when he actually gathered his army at Carlisle in the North West ? You can see the monument on the spot were he died at Burgh by Sands just outside of Carlisle . Lanercost Priory, where the chronicles were written is also just outside of Carlisle

[@bongofrenzy303]

The Bottle of Bannockburn is a rich and very tasty tipple.

[@CabbagePatchBstard]

It's odd to think that the American military historian Aryck Nusbacher is now a "woman" called Lynette.

[@nightrose2339]

Indeed de brus or de bruis was used spelling among even the most literate was not fixed . Whist Scotland was not invaded by the Normans the several royal marriages were the herald for many other such . Robert the Bruce held the earldom of carrick which was celtic from his mother. The events included above neglect the participation of The Lord of the isle clam macrurie and several other highland chiefs who were sufficiently better armed than the reserve of gillies that was really my only reservation about your narrative but i also acknowledge that to keep a comprehensive understandable narrative it might have confused the issue

[@scotusayefreeman1297]

Thank you for taking the time to broaden our horizons...most appreciated.

[@kwyzi]

check your history, the first 'spider' story was King David hiding from King Saul !

[@ooooooohmy]

one swallow does not make a summer

[@fredgrove4220]

I don't understand how there could be a Roman Road at Stirling, when the Romans never went much further north than Hadrians Wall.

[@ooooooohmy]

@Higinio Malave that legend wasn't about some arab in spain.. the web across the cave entrance is about muhammad himself. And it's a totally different story. With the bruce it is about watching the determined effort of the spider. With muhammad it is about his being saved by the web across the entrance. Totally different content and totally different morals.

[@rickysmyth]

Can't watch this. Makes Braveheart look historically accurate

[@Tommyfazz]

'Which ever way the voters turn (Robbie, river and the flame) for Auld lang syne they've crossed the burn, proud Scots wha hae a land do claim. And even if the map's the same and even if Westminster rules Scotland's braves they've yet to tame coz they've got the oil ye Southern fools. Tommy Carroll Liverpool

[@numpty4835]

Pity Edward the first died before Bruce got the chance to kick his Arse for sure :-)

[@albion2742]

+Numpty Yes you are a Numpty.

[@numpty4835]

George Lee Oh that's original you lame FK :D

[@randomtask917]

shame the only thing the scots of today can batter is mars bars

[@MrBoBoTom]

+Random Task Probably because this isn't 700 years ago and we now take summer holidays to each others country, I would imagine.

[@numpty4835]

They could still batter the english TiT's if there were any left in that pit of ignorance they call a country :D:D

[@philjjazzmaster42]

i am clan johnstone and are clan was with the bruce and wallace at stirling

[@GUnitSeanAKAmong]

+phil johnston Bruce wasn't present at Stirling Bridge, even Braveheart managed to get that one right.

[@pebtazz1]

+Sean Jones PMSFL.. That's true, Wallace wasn't even Scottish. The Wallace or rather La Walais is the Welshman. possibly now Gloucester with border changes, The film portrayed the Bruces father as having been a leper but its believed that it was Robert that succumbed to its........and what about the legend of the Black and White riding to the rescue rather than the peasants. . after all the Templars were in Scotland no matter how history is swayed to deny it

[@pebtazz1]

+tgp 1 ps . its a great victory and the Bruce is a noble legend however you look at it, a well deserved victory

[@GUnitSeanAKAmong]

I think the film underestimated Bruce. It made him out to be somewhat weak and completely ignored his qualities as a political tactician whom played a 'game of thrones' with England and won.

[@pebtazz1]

+Sean Jones robin young wrote some books about him . A trilogy. They portray him as ruthless and determined. really do the struggle for his crown and Scotland some credit.. And since I'm English you can take it as a compliment . lol.

[@nightrose2339]

What I found interesting is given the variation avalible in translation today with fixed modern language it would have been even more ambiguous in 1306 as you rightly said the Latin was very Caesar like and given the stabbing on John comyn and the papacy taking the English side during a period England was actually allied to France and the Avignon papacy the brick as be translated almost to Brutus who history recalls stabbed Caesar but a very astute oberservation cyber.

[@scotusayefreeman1297]

Let me know when you set up a google+ Night Rose so I can follow you. You are the one with astute observations my friend. All the best to you

[@javamann1000]

No Knights Templar?

[@ooooooohmy]

"His homosexuality was notorious". Well not so. The first documented mention of his rumoured sexuality comes thirty years after Edward's death.

[@jimmywalker1568]

Fiction the bait is out

[@andycowen5520]

Poppy day

[@fenderjaguar7201]

Robert the Bruce was born in England......emm...........wait a second...........what?

[@fenderjaguar7201]

I'm pretty sure Turnberry Castle.....in Ayrshire.......is in Scotland

[@MWM1476]

+Fenderjaguar7 beeing born in england does not make you english and scotland was much smaller that time.

[@normanbrown8929]

It was the Templars

[@TheKeithvidz]

leadership was certainly in short supply to by a rights a powerful force. Edward II could done a triple assault - in the final battle open up on the schiltrons with bowmen, position horsemen to hit the side, plus infantry taking the front.

[@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns]

5:11 Robert was born in England........... Robert the Bruce was English, you learn something new everyday.

[@987jof]

Being born in England doesn't necessarily make you English. You also have to take into account where the individual grew up. I was born in Oman to British parents but grew up in Aberdeen from age 2. Does that make me Omani?

[@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns]

Mac McJof It's cultural, I lived in Thailand, you can be born in Thailand, to parents born in Thailand, be raised in Thailand and live all your life in Thailand, but not be Thai. In the UK we give you British citizenship if you're born here, you don't have to have British parents or be raised here. So culturally speaking I consider Robert to be a fellow Englishman.

[@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns]

Matthew Williams The BNP would most likely agree with you, anyone with a basic understanding of archaeology or genetics would find the idea of Anglo-Saxon/Norman/Celtic bloodlines nonsense.

[@Fiddling_while_Rome_burns]

Matthew Williams 2 parents, 4 grand parents, 8 great grand parents, 16 great greats. 4 generations a century. That's' 256 in 200 years, 4000 in 300 years and 64000 in 400, No-one knows their ancestral lineage?

[@987jof]

Matthew Williams Nationality also takes culture into account as well. While I would not refer to a first-generation immigrant as British, I would call their children British if they were born and raised in the UK. If it acts British, it's British. Can you guarantee that your family has been living here for hundreds of years? 100%? And furthermore, going by your logic nationality doesn't exist because nobody's ancestors are native to the region they were born in. Englishmen ironically aren't original natives to England. "...I do not considering an African or Swedish immigrant...to be more English..." You should, because chances are they are more skilled at the language than you.

[@nightrose2339]

It's not far from accurate but it is very simple and I didn't care for the Anglo version Murray it's Moray as in sir Thomas Randolph Earl of Moray. According to this any knight was slaughtered which again is wrong sir marmaduke twang and the earl of glousters step father who saved Bruce's life in 1305 and the light cavalry chased the retreating English chivalry and captured the cream of it . That was the leverage he needed to have his wife sister daughter and countess of Buchanan released and the ransome money allowed him to start to rebuild Scotland

[@scotusayefreeman1297]

Thank you for sharing that...though after Murray it could have done with clarifying Bruce as a De Brus. Ruth M. Blakely wrote “…..until the time of the ‘Great Cause’ of Scotland, when the priorities of the Annandale Bruses shifted from their interests as Anglo-Scottish barons and became centred on their aspirations to the kingship This period, spanning most of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, was one of comparative harmony and cooperation between England and Scotland, when an atmosphere prevailed in which cross-border lords could flourish and advance themselves in either kingdom, or hedge their bets by having a foot in both. It was an era which began when Scotland was the land of opportunity, especially for younger sons, attracting an influx of Anglo-Norman lords in a climate conducive to the development of baronial settlements in the border region. Indeed, for those whose lands lay solely within that region, the Border itself scarcely existed. Until the events at the end of the thirteenth century forced them to make a choice, it is anachronistic to wonder whether the Bruses, any more than other crossborder magnates, considered themselves to be English or Scots. They the Brus family in England and Scotland 1100-1295 belonged to an aristocracy which transcended frontiers. They moved between kingdoms as easily as they moved between their baronies, carrying their environment with them, amending their titles accordingly and using income from one set of estates to subsidise commitments in another. They paid allegiance to both kings; but if their loyalties were called into conflict there were few so altruistic that they would not put their own interests first when deciding which king to support. They were above, or rather outside, national considerations. They were loyal first and foremost to their own ambitions and to their own family territories.” Ruth M. Blakely ‘the Brus family in England and Scotland 1100 > 1295'

[@japhfo]

Tweng..... Gloucester.... Buchan..... Moray tends to be pronounced 'Murray'

[@nightrose2339]

I'm a soldier with an interest in history but sorry cyber I'm female. Matrilineal decent clan hay

[@scotusayefreeman1297]

Ooops. Sorry Night Rose. God Bless you and all our Armed Forces.

[@MothaLuva]

Eoin MacFreeman What about the Unarmed Forces..?

[@jeanpierreragequit1726]

BREXIT now Independance for SCOTLAND next year !! welcome to EU Scotland !

[@nightrose2339]

To be exactOld Gaelic roibert a briuis Modern Gaelic raibeart bruisNorman French Robert de Bruce Latin robertus BrussiusThe Latin being included due to the multiple involvements of the Catholic Church

[@scotusayefreeman1297]

That's more like it... The Latin Robertus is very Caesar thank you kindly Mr Rose

[@japhfo]

Et tu Roberte?

[@numpty4835]

Typical of the english after a defeat, they find somone to blame in this case the Welsh and the Irish. But had the Welsh won the day with their invention the famous "english long" bow :D they would have not had a mention!

[@ChrisTian-lf2oh]

Another clip filmed/uploaded with a potato. Not worth watching.

[@DoctorPatty]

Robert the Bruce couldn't even fight his own personal battles. The Scots only won this battle due to the help of a band of Templars that fled from Europe.

[@MrBoBoTom]

Robert The Bruce revolutionized warfare at the time lol

[@MWM1476]

Sounds logical

[@bessiebraveheart]

the sweaty socks have never been in with a chance when fighting the English. the English will always beat the strappers.