September 1297 - Stirling Bridge

The result stands - English feudal Army creamed by a bunch of sub-human peasants (snigger, snigger).

The point of divergence here is that Wallace dies. Sir Andrew Moray doesn't.

So the incompetent blue-faced Australian cradle-snatching dog-robber isn't around to screw up later. Andrew Moray, being an experienced professional soldier rather than a cattle thief, doesn't get sucked into giving battle at Falkirk the next year.

What happens next?
 
Maybe we get a film in which a bridge actually occurs in the Battle of Stirling Bridge?

Ach Gott, I hate that <***> Braveheart film! A friend of mine was within an inch of getting beaten up in a bar in Dundee a few years back for suggesting that maybe there were some inaccuracies in it. (Ok, he called it "a steamin' heap o' shite", but you get the idea.)


But, no, I still think Jamie VI gets to be James I.
 
Maybe we get a film in which a bridge actually occurs in the Battle of Stirling Bridge?

Ach Gott, I hate that <***> Braveheart film! A friend of mine was within an inch of getting beaten up in a bar in Dundee a few years back for suggesting that maybe there were some inaccuracies in it. (Ok, he called it "a steamin' heap o' shite", but you get the idea.)


But, no, I still think Jamie VI gets to be James I.

They didn't have a bridge because of safety concerns, armored dudes in big horses on a narrow passageway over water is just asking for it, which is of course why bridges make such nifty choke points in warfare.
 
Maybe we get a film in which a bridge actually occurs in the Battle of Stirling Bridge?

Ach Gott, I hate that <***> Braveheart film! A friend of mine was within an inch of getting beaten up in a bar in Dundee a few years back for suggesting that maybe there were some inaccuracies in it. (Ok, he called it "a steamin' heap o' shite", but you get the idea.)


But, no, I still think Jamie VI gets to be James I.

Only if the English dynastic questions go the same as OTL; it's perfectly possible that the Wars of the Roses don't even happen in this scenario.
 
Maybe we get a film in which a bridge actually occurs in the Battle of Stirling Bridge?

Ach Gott, I hate that <***> Braveheart film! A friend of mine was within an inch of getting beaten up in a bar in Dundee a few years back for suggesting that maybe there were some inaccuracies in it. (Ok, he called it "a steamin' heap o' shite", but you get the idea.)

I'd be quick to draw your attention to the widespread scorn and derision for the movie in Scotland amongst the historically informed and people who don't like a foreigner stoking our idle Anglophobia (including vandalism of a statue of Mel put up next to Wallace Memorial), the belligerant atmosphere of certain public drinking establishments, and of course the 10-foot barbed-wire fence seperating Dundee from civilisation. :p
 
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