A History of Scotland - Episode 2 - Hammers of the Scots (6/6)

BBC Documentary profiling Alexander II and William Wallace.

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• Scotland
• Documentary
• William
• Wallace
• William Wallace
• History

[docnon]

This documentary is absolutely amazing. Really fills in a lot of blanks about the nation's history. How many episodes are there?

[jamgilp]

@docnon - There's 10 episodes altogether. They're all on my channel.

[sushanalone]

always good to hear the history of a land from a person born and living there..was great to see it.

[metalandjazzare1]

@AnnabelLolita William Wallace was a tactical genius 2300 v 7000 English and he obliterated the English killing 5000 cut the man some slack

[metalandjazzare1]

king Edward was so evil and ruthless he turned Scotland against England forever Berwick massacre i think since the battle of sterling William had 2300 men and the English had 7000 i think he was a tactical genius to kill 5000 that is outstanding odds for peasants

[AnnabelLolita]

@Injektilo7 yep, indeed Wallace is overrated while the actual masters are forgotten. However, tactics we're NOT as important as you try to imply. Ofcourse there were tactics, and ofcourse people had visions of how to war. Yes the romans and greeks did actually master pretty high diciline in their lines. But compared to modern age disicipline, much created by the preussians. No medievial or ancient nation can compete. With the only exception for certain armies, such as Gengis Khan's army.

[sauzee79]

@gotfire3 Why are you calling me a dipshit?! I replied to AnnabelLolita's comment, not yours...Dipshit!

[Injektilo7]

Anyway that aside, Wallace was certainly a million miles away from a military genius, as it was almost certainly Andrew Moray, rather than Wallace who gathered, drilled and commanded the men. He died at Stirling and is therefore often forgotten, but he was an actual knight to Wallace's second son status and has a quite exceptional battle record compared to Wallace's fairly iffy one.

[Injektilo7]

@AnnabelLolita This is a pretty bizarre interpretation, tactics had a massive amount to do with it, the secret to Scottish success in the Wars of Independence was due to a formation called the schiltron, which was essentially a medieval version of the Greek Phalanx, relying on extreme coordination, discipline and drilled movement. The version employed at Stirling was fairly basic, but it evolved to its apex by Bannockburn.

[gotfire3]

@sauzee79 look at the last word dipshit. But no im not an expert.

[sauzee79]

@AnnabelLolita I take it you're an expert on medieval battles then?! The battle of Stirling Bridge was never in a movie either. It was wrongly portrayed as a field battle in Braveheart if that is what you are referring to. "genious" got to love the irony there too!! :)

[ultramegatrion]

Wallace was betrayed just like Hannibal of Carthage.....fucken sellouts!

[gotfire3]

@AnnabelLolita i said he was a SAVAGE... i know exactly what that means. Yet if Edward was so fixated and obsessed with killing Wallace its obvious that the people liked him, and there was much more to it. All he did was commanded an army that defeated the english at Stirling... Then why is his name known as legendary? There was much more "heroism" than history records. That is why the people flocked to his side, remember he had a whole army at his side before the battle of Stirling bridge