William Wallace didn’t look like that

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• wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  IIRC, Wallace was captured mere weeks after his rebellion started (ffwd: torture, execution) and the young Bruce, the son of the syphilitic fuck who sold the land to King Eddy Longshanks, picked up where he left off —even becoming the first to sack York. ☝🏼

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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wallace’s most famous battle is arguably the Battle of Stirling Bridge. A smaller force of 5-6,000 infantry and 300 cavalry defeated 7,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry!

  As the name suggests, it’s key component was the bridge at Stirling. It was a bottleneck which Wallace used to his advantage to defeat the larger force.

  This battle was portrayed in Braveheart, with one teensy tiny bit of “artistic liberty”. They forgot the bloody bridge!

  They did however get the historically accurate mediaeval car in shot though

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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stirling_Bridge

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• CobblerScholar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  In 2009, the film was second on a list of “most historically inaccurate movies” in The Times.[66] In the humorous non-fictional historiography An Utterly Impartial History of Britain (2007), author John O’Farrell claims that Braveheart could not have been more historically inaccurate, even if a Plasticine dog had been inserted in the film and the title changed to “William Wallace and Gromit”.[74]

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braveheart

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