Battle of Falkirk, 1298 - William Wallace's Last Stand - First War of Scottish Independence, Part 3

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Sources:
• Stirling Bridge & Falkirk 1297-98 (Pete Armstrong). ISBN: 978-1-84176-510-5
• Robert the Bruce, King of Scots (Ronald McNair Scott). ISBN: 978-1-78211-177-1
• A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain (Marc Morris). ISBN: 978-0-091-79684-6
• The Hammer of the Scots: Edward I and the Scottish Wars of Independence (David Santiuste). ISBN: 978-1-78159-012-6
• Edward I (Michael Prestwich). ISBN: 978-0-300-07157-3
• William Wallace: Brave Heart (James MacKay). ISBN: 9781780574288
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[@HistoryMarche]

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[@Rajasanatani]

🙏🙏

[@geraintthatcher3076]

Great video, will you be doing Robert and Edward Bruce Campaigns in Ireland ?

[@pjs1738]

Great video! What was the song with the end credits? cheers 😊

[@paulfelkner6749]

cool stuff

[@HistoryMarche]

@@geraintthatcher3076 Possibly yes. For now the series will feature Dunbar, Stirling, Falkirk, Loudoun Hill, and Bannockburn. But I might expand it.

[@ErnstGaede]

Here with my 3 day old rockhard bread and undrinkable water.

[@HistoryMarche]

True warrior!

[@tannerdenny5430]

Try wine for hydration good sire. Tis' what we all do. Also, it gets ya drunk!

[@ErnstGaede]

@@tannerdenny5430 Haha.I once saw that,it was like Romans used this technique.

[@Jaymsie.]

Good time to invite your enemies for a parlay - over dinner, of course 🤣🤣🤣

[@dmalinowski15]

I like where your heads at bro 🫡

[@resileaf9501]

Damn, this war doesn't look nearly as easy for the Scots as Age of Empires 2 implied. 😔

[@Eishikigami]

CLICK THE BERRECKS

[@theflyingsteamerstoke8534]

"Keep exploring the map!"

[@GarkKahn]

This dumb channel totally omitted the battle after the scots destroyed one of the english outposts -.-

[@mashek331]

They need an official campaign that does justice to Wallace's story. They may as well include a campaign for Robert the Bruce as well!

[@idkmybffjill9682]

Have been playing the hell out of that game lately

[@harryjackson3867]

Damn… u guys are just pumping out these Scottish war of independence videos, I ain’t complaining

[@HistoryMarche]

Thanks for checking out the video

[@harryjackson3867]

@@HistoryMarche thank you for making them :)

[@mk9650]

@@HistoryMarche When is the next Basil video coming out?

[@brokenbridge6316]

Fun Fact: When the movie Braveheart was being shot the Irish n Scottish Extra's refused to fight each other which prompted a script change and that's how we saw the Irish in the movie defect to Wallace and the Scots. Well in the movie anyway. At the real battle both sides fought rather bitterly. How ironic.

[@MadMikeRyan.]

Another script change was that in actual history Wallace was hit in the neck by an arrow at Falkirk and survived, but the producers decided that it wasn't believable enough so made it his shoulder in the movie.

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@MadMikeRyan.---Interesting

[@stevencooper4422]

Same in the American civil war, there were Irish on both sides butchering each other.

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@stevencooper4422---Not surprised by that at all. Thanks for responding

[@agentbarron3945]

@@stevencooper4422 America is vastly different when it comes to things like that vs Europe though. Europe, at least historically, was very divided along culture lines and entire wars were fought over areas like alsas which had around 25% ethnic germans so germany considered it theirs even though it was 75% ethnic french. Vs america where borders were drawn by burecrats to look pretty on a map and follow river lines, doesnt matter if the next town over is ethnically welsh, im not going to invade to liberate them, they are just americans to me. So in the civil war, some dude from virginia is just some dude from virginia, he is wearing a gray coat, doesnt matter if he is irish, welsh, french

[@ryanlaird6447]

I am from Falkirk and this is pretty much exactly how we learn this in school Well done was such a quality video Also well done for actually pronouncing falkirk correctly

[@89Wrathchild]

I'm from Falkirk too. The only disappointment is that John de Graeme wasn't mentioned at all. Half of Falkirk is named after him, and he was considered as Wallace's right hand man.

[@JamieWalker-pc6nd]

@@89Wrathchildrespect for that knowledge bro!

[@benedictjajo]

William Wallace: Noob box formation!!!! Edward: Alright, spam projectiles. Carrhae all over again.

[@iinano4552]

seriously , your channel is History encyclopedia ❤

[@manatarms7652]

The campaign wasn’t entirely finished after Falkirk. The earls Marshall and Hereford went home with their troops meaning Edward could not make too many more gains but after taking Stirling, he preceded to capture a lot of Bruce’s territory such as Dumfries and Lochmaben before finishing the campaign by capturing the border castle of Jedburgh.

[@The_Gallowglass]

And then he died of the shits. Hehehehehehehe.

[@JamieWalker-pc6nd]

Ok good comment but no more likes 😂

[@alijade3521]

This is amazing, keep up the good work!

[@TheSamuraijim87]

This campaign seems very much characteristic of the entire saga of the wars of independence. Scotland is impossible for England to occupy effectively, but the Plantagenets were too strong for Scotland to avoid paying homage to. Fantastic video.

[@garymccallum667]

The Plantagenet's are my favourite royals from history even though I'm Scots. So much history, blood & disasters. Also God rest QE2

[@TheSamuraijim87]

@@garymccallum667 yeah, I'm Scots too, but it is undeniable that they had an interesting history that's for sure. And I'm sad her Majesty is gone, but the Christmas message this year was nice.

[@natedrake6382]

Love these videos, can't wait for more of these series on different war's, once again, keep it up

[@ciscof4041]

Awesome! Always interested in the Scottish Wars of Independence, thank you for illustrating the battles :)

[@frederikbester1753]

I searched for this video earlier today. Well done on getting it up so quickly!

[@stephanbateman5410]

I would just like to point out a few things about Established Titles. 1) It is based in HK not Scotland. 2) it is a scam. 3) Lairds are not the same as Lords. 4) These titles are classed as novelty gifts and have ZERO legal status. 5) if you want to pay towards a tree being planted there are a number of legitimate charities.

[@davidlittle7182]

Agree...Treesforlife is a great charity

[@HedgeWalker]

No charity is legitimate

[@ereynolds72]

Lmao, the Welsh getting pissed and starting fights is just wonderful.

[@wedgeantillies66]

Edward I, following on from the defeat at Stirling a year before gives Wallace a masterclass in how to destroy an enemy army piecemeal and by making use of all the resources and assets at ones disposal to inflict massive damage and slaughter upon ones enemy. Although Wallace would escape and continue the fight, defeat at Falkirk was the beginning of the end for him as he was eventually ran to ground and captured and killed and whole of Scotland submitted, before a new champion emerged in Bruce to save Scotland.

[@barbiquearea]

The Scottish force that fought at Falkirk was mostly made up of irregulars rather than a professional and well equipped force. Most likely wore little if any armor, with shields and helmets also in insufficient number. This made it very easy for the English longbowmen to scythe through the tightly packed ranks of the shiltrons, allowing them to fall in large numbers; "like blossoms in an orchard when the fruit has ripened" as one Englidh chronicle recounts.

[@desmondd1984]

Seems like Wallace's strategy at Falkirk, as presented here, was overly simplistic and even idiotic. -waste cavalry in unequal fight -leave archers unprotected so English cavalry can run them down -immobile schiltrons that just sit and get slowly decimated by longbowmen

[@georgebailey8179]

@@desmondd1984 It seems he was preparing for a cavalry charge, which I imagine would have gone far better for the Scots. As it was, it let well-led English cavalry remove the Scottish cavalry and archers. Once that happened, the Scottish infantry had two options: stand there and be shot or run away and be ridden down.

[@skipper2285]

English longbows were essentially the machine guns of the time. No infantry could stand against a mass of them. Shields and helmets would have been of little avail. Fortification would have helped, but there was no time.

[@scipioafricanus2212]

The longbowmen would have chewed through professional soldiers too. The best armour at this time was chainmail, not that the average pikeman would be able to afford that. The Scottish pikeman wore gambesons for armour.

[@westick]

@@desmondd1984 only an idiot would have placed the Scottish army south of Fawkirk as presented here.. had it taken place here, whatever was left of the shiltrons would have been trapped in what is now Callendar Park along with Wallace, this short film is as factual as Braveheart. :)

[@DrKarmo]

I love this! Will you guys remake the Battle of Bannockburn as well? The old video is great but your current style is far more appealing.

[@SolestroDerNarr]

When I read "Will you guys", I thought you meant William Wallace

[@robbabcock_]

Agreed! I hope we get a new video on Bannockburn!⚔🏹🙏

[@chrismac2234]

Tbh M8 you get more insight and accuracy from Churchill's history of English speaking people.

[@bobbypugh2666]

My sacrifice for the algorithm. Excellent production as always.

[@austinb4400]

Excellent video, as per usual!

[@tannerdenny5430]

I love the jolly drunk brawling music they always play

[@fvandongen]

Thanks for sharing history this way.

[@InsteadLaugh]

I love the videos! Keep up the great work!

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Most wonderful introducing with informative coverages.(.History Marche) its one of my favorite historian channel ❤️...allot thanks...a battle proved that continuous mobilize attacking besides quantitive superiors are crushing constant, settlement defensive lines...also British sides secured eastern costs of Scotland to preventing French supporting to Scottish sides ...thanks

[@davidlittle7182]

British what?

[@alan74453]

Absolutely brilliant line of history , worth pursuing.

[@suicidebxmber1234]

Damn! Talk about cliffhangers.

[@Valhalla88888]

When you look at the population of England today 55m vs Scotland at 5m, England always had the largest forces and biggest budget (taxes) even at Bannockburn England had a margin of 3:1 Scots had to use skill, tactics, hide and seek, and jungle warfare, the Scots today are still a worthy warrior race we should give cheer to our Northern neighbors.

[@Kees247]

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[@abele7009]

Great content as always.

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I love these videos keep it up.

[@stevewayne1359]

Established Titles planting a single tree for each order is great but utterly pales in comparison to the more than 13 million trees cut down by the Scottish government since 2000 to make way for wind turbines

[@alexure313]

Brilliant tutorial having been born in Falkirk and still living there, there are many references all over Falkirk to where the battle was from the Wallace stone too Westquarter burn and onto the the land overlooking Falkirk.

[@davidbroadley126]

Bonnie prince charlie defeated the English at falkirk let's talk about that

[@iMertin90]

@@davidbroadley126450 years later

[@alexscott8950]

Im straight up loving the Scottish history videos here lately.

[@HistoryMarche]

Loudoun Hill is next in the series.

[@wilhelmmay3537]

Good work, keep it up! Greetings from Germany

[@drfooy9949]

Wow new episode 3 days in row. Awesome

[@heraldobreen2305]

Always love these videos

[@KHK001]

As always another great video!

[@HistoryMarche]

Thanks so much man!

[@pukhtonkhan-og5wp]

Lucky me I didn't even have to wait just finished watching part 1 and 2

[@stevelebreton3489]

Thanks for the video 👍

[@Torres001able]

Love your videos

[@ricardocabrita4148]

Great quality as usual

[@TexasDevin]

Always excellent content.

[@richardchaparro2830]

Great job. Appreciate it.

[@RushlockMedia]

These recent more frequent releases are spoiling us!

[@sasukeuzumaki3608]

Thank you for this series! Scotland is a beautiful country with a rich and proud history, it's always nice to learn more about this region of the world

[@jasonz7788]

Great work Sir thank you

[@Ezelboi]

I really enjoy every HistoryMarche video and I'm definitely a fan, this was another outstanding video series. However the sound effects and music in this particular William Wallace series made it less clear for me and somewhat bothersome to follow the video sometimes. Hopefully future videos will be without distractions and just history!

[@sevoo1579]

What a great series, I love European history

[@Steven-dt5nu]

Love your work

[@talldude1412]

Great vid! Thanks!

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Hollywood: “I have neither eyes to see, ears to hear, nor leaves to read.”

[@TK-zy6ib]

Keep up the good work.

[@ZACHPSU1996]

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[@InfoSide122]

I love your videos and I really appreciate that your videos have captions in many languages especially my language arabic ❤.

[@squiremcgee1820]

Having grown up and lived in Falkirk my whole life the only thing I query is Wallace's quote on the eve of battle. I was always lead to believe it was "I've brought ye to the ring, now dance the best ye can" I'm not sure if there's a source or not?

[@Jolene492]

you’re correct, in Scottish dialect: I hae brocht ye to the ring, now see gif ye can dance I grew up in Glasgow and I studied Scottish history. Loved it

[@Ghost-vi8qm]

Loved the sountrack

[@FieldTactics]

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[@alloysiusfrancis232]

Wonderful as always

[@HistoryMarche]

Thank you so much 😀

[@coffman1809]

Great presentation

[@trpcp]

superb work

[@IronWarrior86]

This series got me interested in the history of Scottish struggle for independence. After having watched Part 1 i decided to read whole articles of it on Wikipedia, fascinating stuff. I'm particularly impressed how the Scots managed to pull off victory after victory despite having numerical disadvantage. Later on during the Irish campaign the Scots were replicating their victories until Edward Bruce made the fatal mistake in what would be his last battle of engaging a hugely larger army which spelled absolute defeat.

[@tompowell843]

Great video, thank you

[@memer1271]

A last stand to last forever in history. Great vid.

[@antoniohinojos3808]

Archers should have been center of the outer two formations, perhaps on elivated ground if possible. Forced them center, then flank if they could gain advantage on the flanks.

[@ike3558]

10:23 clearly a typo in the script. The narrator said processed when he meant proceeded. All good, love the videos. I watch this on my phone while I do my 2 miles on the treadmill.

[@fatihahenouze2036]

Good job

[@sevoo1579]

Spies and reconnaissance are so important

[@ericfarrell5595]

Great video!

[@stevkohl8235]

I was waiting for that!🍿

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[@ccptube3468]

He escaped n committed suicide at an old age.

[@JohnnyWalker1077]

Nice! Btw I would love to see a video about the Bulgar-Serb war dating back between 839-842 and 853.

[@michaelsinger4638]

The Scots got very unlucky here in a number of ways. Having to face extremely capable commander Edward I himself this time. Their Calvary being scattered off the field, their archers being killed (leaving the infantry vulnerable), etc. But in the end, Edward didn’t really gain much from winning the battle. He ended up having to leave Scotland with very little in the end.

[@DannyMakesVideosIGuess]

That's not unlucky, that's poor tactics.

[@gnasher688]

@@DannyMakesVideosIGuess - agreed

[@budwyzer77]

Why on earth didn't Wallace put his archers *inside* the schiltrons?

[@MDP1702]

@@budwyzer77 Or even in the forest edge with some spearmen?

[@EM-cw9eh]

@@budwyzer77probably because he wouldn’t be able to use them properly at all if he did, since I imagine it would heavily restrict their line of sight.

[@Aginor88]

Interesting as per usual.

[@coyote4237]

Thank you.

[@thecrusaderhistorian9820]

nice video!

[@peterboyd7149]

Soar Alba! I love your doing Scottish History Historymarche.

[@darkstarr2321]

God for Harry, England, and Saint George. These are good videos

[@Jesse_Dawg]

Please more! I need more

[@briangilbert9077]

Nice take on the battle.

[@morriganmhor5078]

Few points: 1) Edinburgh and Berwick were Anglo-Saxon fortresses long before Irish Scots conquered Scotland´s Pictish kingdoms and Brythons´ kingdoms in Rheged and Galloway. 2) Also, many "kings of Scots" sweared to various English monarchs their oath of vassalage, only to befriend themselves with French and act as their fifth column on the Isle. "Treacherous as the Scots" was the saying. 3) Even the king John of Balliol who became king of Scots by Edward I arbitrage sent (or was unable to stop) Wallace´s plundering expedition to England.

[@davidlittle7182]

1) is wrong. Northumbria was an Anglian conquest, taken from the Celtic tribes already there. Lothian wasn't an 'English possession' in that sense. Also Dal Riata - 'Irish Scots' isn't there title and is misleading - was a kingdom covering Argyle and part of Ulster, and there is no modern evidence that Pictish or Brythonic parts of modern Scotland were 'conquered' - read 'The Picts' by Tim Clarkson - rather that intermarriage of royal dynasties and the Viking invasions caused a probable migration and assimilation. 2) justifying coercion of Scottish leaders isn't justification at all 3) Wallace attacked York because that was where the English were mounting invasions of Scotland from Incredible how many Unionists will bend over backwards to apologise for foreign invasion

[@morriganmhor5078]

@@davidlittle7182 1) Picts we probably of pre-Celtic origin and that peaceful "intermarriage" history is a joke spawned by Celtic conspirators and people from Nationalistic Party (who voted for Muslim as a Minister of Interior). 2) Scots coming from the Northern Ireland is proved. 3) Wallace attack on York was probably ordered by French so that Edward I return from France..,

[@davidlittle7182]

@@morriganmhor5078 1) both wrong - it's commonly accepted they are insular Celtic and probably related to Brythonic tribes, or have a common root. Amazing you mention 'nationalistic' before doing a racism. 2) Co-settling 2 parts of two islands isn't disproven as well as being distinctly different to an unproven 'they must have come from one of them' 3) needs substantiating, but wouldn't have any bearing on the point that they weren't colonialising

[@user-jm3sk8gy4s]

رائع استمر في العمل العظيم الذي تقوم به.

[@FieldHoodGaming]

Cheers to the best narrator!

[@HAZY0809]

great content

[@adamstephenson7518]

Great video

[@Princeps2]

I always wonder why TV show and movies don't show the real historical events which are often more insane and badass than the Hollywood interpretations. Also loved the face paint reference, tank you.

[@davidsmart8594]

I really enjoy your presentations of such battles: There's obviously a lot of work gone into them and it's much appreciated. Why, though, do you find it necessary for a British narrator to refer to Autumn as "Fall"? Why?

[@HellenicWolf]

good job!

[@mcsmash4905]

its genuinely amazing how cavalry will exploit even the tiniest of gaps

[@shawnespinoza9300]

Excellent!

[@AydinGerayoglu]

Scotland is an amazing country.

[@alexbrown200]

thank you! we are a small country but crazy and proud

[@AydinGerayoglu]

@@alexbrown200 Scotland is a small state, but the Scottish people are a big nation. I hope you will be independent, protect your mother tongue and culture.

[@EM-cw9eh]

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[@QwentyJ]

@@AydinGerayoglu Not all of us support independence 😉 but thank you for your kind words

[@darkstarr2321]

@@AydinGerayoglu Scotland has been part of the UK for 300 years. It's culture has survived that long

[@milabugtcher990]

again great one...I wonder how you ll handle Bannockburn:-)

[@Triumph633]

I grant you this comment as my sacrifice. May your channel live long and prosper.

[@Zogerpogger]

I would enjoy seeing this series expanded into the Second War of Scottish Independence which was initiated when Balliol lead a force of 1,500 men by sea to retake Scotland from Bruce's Son. There is a lot more to these conflicts than just the relatively well-known battles of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. At the Battle of Dupplin Moor, this force of 1,500 crushed a Scottish force of 15,000(!) or more while holding a defensive position in a small ravine with longbowmen on the flanks. The Scottish Battles (Schiltrons) charged at the English due to competition between two of the commanders and the funnel-like nature of the ravine not being visible from their position. A horrific Agicourt-like situation developed where thousands of Scots suffocated or were trampled by their comrades pushing from behind. It was said that the English and Scottish front lines were not even able to strike one another with their weapons due to being pressed so close together. As one can imagine, the longbows produced terrible carnage, and the Scots routed. I read on the Wikipedia article that this deployment at Dupplin Moor (men-at-arms in the center, archers on the flanks) inspired Edward III at Crécy. Thus overall, this is ideal history for what this channel presents. Dupplin Moor would be an excellent battle to see animated (not to mention the many other engagements and operational movements), and after all is said and done, the effort can be capitalized on by creating an "ALL PARTS" video covering the Campaings of Edward I, II, and III against Scotland and France.

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[@cymro6537]

Great video. I wonder could we have a few videos on the Welsh wars of independence?

[@meatKog]

Very Nice!

[@matziviri2866]

Not that I'm complaining, but what is with this channel and the constant switching of series/subjects? Just recently its been Napoleon, Samnite Wars, Napoleon, 10th century, now Scottish Wars of Independence. Again, its all more history, and so always welcome, but I'm curious as to why. Is it Patrons who decide which video is worked on next? Or is it to vary content and appease the fickle algorithms?

[@HistoryMarche]

Patrons do vote for topics, yes. But also production on each episode takes over a month to complete. So to release every week, the mixing of topics is mandatory.

[@matziviri2866]

@@HistoryMarche Alright, that's understandable. Thanks for answering my question and keep up the great work!