Braveheart
Mel Gibson plays William Wallace, a Scottish man. When William is a little boy his father dies. At the father's grave a little girl walks up to William and gives him a flower. After the funeral for William's father, he is taken to live with his uncle. Year's later he returns to his home. And at a wedding for one of the fellow town people he sees the girl who gave him the flower many years ago. They go on like two dates and he asks her to marry him. So they get married. But they must keep the marriage a secret because the guards of England will take away Williams wife and have their way with her. Well, the guards find out and as they are about to rape her, William comes and saves her. He tells her to get on a horse and meet him somewhere. While William is fighting the guards and getting to the secret spot, his girl is caught and tide to a wood post where her throat is slit. William comes back and looks as though he is going to surrender but he actually fights off all the guards and then ties up the man who killed his wife and slits the mans throat. Others from around Scotland heard of what he had done and went to him telling him how they are sick of being ruled by England and wish to be free. So the men get together an
On the refusal of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, ruler of Wales, to submit to the English crown, Edward began the military conflict that resulted, in 1284, in the annexation of Llewelyn's principality to the English crown. Wallace captured many English fortresses north of the Forth River, and on September 11, 1297, in the Battle of Stirling Bridge, he severely defeated English forces attempting to cross the Forth. In 1305 he was one of those consulted in the decision to make Scotland a province of England. Greater than either of these problems was the disaffection of the people of Scotland. Following his father's death in 1272, and while he was still abroad, Edward was recognized as king by the English barons; in 1273, on his return to England, he was crowned. The mounted English troops blundered into the pits and were slain by Scottish pikemen. In 1715 its ownership was forfeited to the monarchy. The Scots later repudiated him and made an alliance with France against England. In the fighting that followed, the English army was decisively defeated, losing an estimated 10,000 men. " William starts attacking the English and he succeeds at every battle. In winning the Battle of Falkirk in 1298, Edward achieved the greatest military triumph of his career, but he failed to crush Scottish opposition. As earl of Carrick he paid homage to King Edward I of England, who, in 1296, defeated King John de Baliol and thereafter refused to acknowledge another king of Scotland. Assured by Parliament of support at home, Edward took the field and suppressed the Welsh insurrection. About the same year in which he lost Gascony, the Welsh rose in rebellion.
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