Without crying Freedom...

[Mike1]

He's right. 7 years after the famous battles.

Plural?

1 April 1298 was the date of the Battle of Falkirk (specifically, the first Battle of Falkirk, not to be confused with the second battle taking place on 17 January 1746).

11 September 1297 was the Battle of Stirling Brig, nearly 8 years before the execution.

Now, if you want to get REALLY specific, the matter gets into calender shifts and all that.

Three years of calendar shift? I don't think you can get quite that specific.

[MacWage]

Plural?

1 April 1298 was the date of the Battle of Falkirk (specifically, the first Battle of Falkirk, not to be confused with the second battle taking place on 17 January 1746).

11 September 1297 was the Battle of Stirling Brig, nearly 8 years before the execution.

Three years of calendar shift? I don't think you can get quite that specific.

HEY!
The text in NOW upside down!

I was generalizing, noting the span of time BETWEEN the period of Stirling Bridge and Falkirk and Wallace's exection (in CONTRAST to the portrayal implication in the movie, which looks to be shorter.
The "calender shift" was in reference to the DATE of Aug. 23, in light of several "adjustments" made in the last 2,000 years (the Julian, Gregorian, and the like, which some historians make issue with dating events). One of the IRRITATING things about PhD work is that the topic HAS to be "new," which can be VERY difficult in well-plowed areas (such as Biblical topics and popular historical periods). One of my professors would call the more odd-claims "PhD drivel" and wonder, openly, if the AUTHOR even believed it. He and I knew of several that DIDN'T, but wrote just to get the PhD and publication claims. One of these "crazy claims" is the shifting of dates for events (arguing calender), most of which is irrelevant ANYWAYS (doesn't change the chronology, persons, or events that took place). The dating is argued more in the Golden Age of Piracy (early 1700s), when there were a couple different dating systems used in parallel (which affected the DATE, not year).
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I didn't mean the 1302/1305 issue. Wallace died in 1305.

Mike, I was trying to AGREE with you, in my earlier post.

[Oldhiker]

HEY!

Mike, I was trying to AGREE with you, in my earlier post.

You can always tell a Scot.... but you can't tell them much!!


In the true spirit of Wallace being defiant we continue in his path even today.

[Arlen]

To be honest, I just read my notes wrong and then added it up wrong because of that.
Sorry about the mix-up.

[CelticRanger66]

My father always lit a candle in his memory at our church.