Famous Scots Series
A most fateful date in the history of Scotland was the 19th of March 1285-86. In the dusk of that memorable day, King Alexander III., riding along the coast of Fife, near Kinghorn, was thrown over a precipice and killed. He was only in the forty-fifth year of his age, though i...
A most fateful date in the history of Scotland was the 19th of March 1285-86. In the dusk of that memorable day, King Alexander III., riding along the coast of Fife, near Kingho...
5. CHAPTER VThe immediate outcome of the victory of Stirling Bridge was the clearance of the English out of the realm of Scotland. At the same time, the success gave no measure of the relat...
7. CHAPTER VII'All day with fruitless strife they toil'd.... Rent was the sail, and strain'd the mast, And many a leak was gaping fast, And the pale steersman stood aghast, And gave the confl...
8. CHAPTER VIII'In this caus that I wend, Sa that we wyn, I rek nocht for till end. Rycht suth it is that anys we mon de: In to the rycht, quha suld in terrour be?'
4. CHAPTER IV'Our power for to knaw, We will tak feild, and wp our baner rais Off rycht Scotland, in contrar off our fais. We will no mar now ws in covert hid; Power till ws will sembill on...
3. CHAPTER IIIApart from the Hazelrig and Ormsby episodes, the chroniclers plant Wallace at Stirling Bridge almost as if he had just started from the ground, or come down from the clouds, rea...
2. CHAPTER IIBlind Harry, a perfervid Scot himself, and keenly jealous for the perfection of his hero, exhibits lively anxiety to impress the fact that Wallace was a thorough Scotsman--'of w...
9. CHAPTER IXIt is matter of deep regret that the facts of the personality and career of Wallace still remain so obscure. There is no alternative but to piece them together painfully from th...
6. CHAPTER VIHarry does not scruple to send Wallace to France, not once only, but twice. The first visit extends from April 21 to the end of August, in some year when Wallace was Guardian, a...