"The Battle of Stirling Bridge" Topic

I learned about this one more than 55 years ago at school. William Wallace was either very lucky or had a brilliant eye for an opportunity.

Now it's a new HistoryMarche documentary on YouTube. It came on line about an hour ago.

YouTube link

Barry

I've long suspected that the tactical genius behind the victory was not Wallace, but Andrew Moray (Murray), who unfortunately died sometime afterwards, possibly from wounds taken at the battle. The contrast with Wallace's performance at Falkirk is my basis for this suspicion, although to be honest Edward I was a much more formidable military mind than either Surrey or Cressingham.

Whoever the tactician was, he had some luck, but he also made good use of it.

That robotic voice-over is very off-geputting

Better by far to read a book or two. I've no idea why people make these videos.

I find a lot of these videos are good introductions to a subject. I then go and dig deeper, read more and find a new area to increase the lead mountain with

Cheers
Ian

Understood, but if they are really bad it takes a lot of 'unlearning' to fix the initial input. There are, of course, many good videos made by amateur historians/independent scholars on just about any topic one can imagine, but this is not one of them.