. The London & North-Western Railway . n the various eager claimants of thethrone, and before long, under one pretext andanother, he had secured the Scottish strongholds, filledthe country with English soldiers,and practically made it a subjectkingdom. The Scottish people,however, resisted his claims tobe their overlord, and, firedby the indignities and crueltiesput upon them by his soldieryand governors, they rose in found a leader in SirWilKam Wallace, a knight ofRenfrewshire, under whom theygradually won back the strong A Luggage-porter, castles of the country, and at last, in a d
. The London & North-Western Railway . n the various eager claimants of thethrone, and before long, under one pretext andanother, he had secured the Scottish strongholds, filledthe country with English soldiers,and practically made it a subjectkingdom. The Scottish people,however, resisted his claims tobe their overlord, and, firedby the indignities and crueltiesput upon them by his soldieryand governors, they rose in found a leader in SirWilKam Wallace, a knight ofRenfrewshire, under whom theygradually won back the strong A Luggage-porter, castles of the country, and at last, in a decisive battleat Stirling Bridge, defeated a great English army underSurrey and Cressingham, and drove their oppressorsfrom the kingdom. At news of this, Edward hastened home from hisforeign wars, again gathered all the forces of hisrealm, and, marching into Scotland, defeated Wallacein a pitched battle at Falkirk. Seven years laterthe Scottish leader himself was captured, and carrieda prisoner to London. Then again Edwards vindic- 27. London and North-Western Railway tiveness burst out. Though Wallace had never swornfealty to him, nor been his subject, he had himcharged and condemned as a traitor, and had him putto death in the same horrible manner as David, thebrother of Llewellyn, twenty-two years before. Instead of crushing the spirit of Scotland, the deathof Wallace fired it to greater efforts, and within a fewmonths Robert the Bruce was in the field as theScottish champion. At first, fortune went againstBruce. He lost every battle, and Edward himselfwas marching with a great English army to crush himfinally, when the English king himself was seized withmortal sickness. He had reached Burgh-on-Sands, onthe south shore of the Solway, when he felt his lasthour had come. At that moment there were broughtinto his camp Nigel Bruce, the youngest brother of theScottish king, and a number of other brave Scotsmen,who, after a gallant defence of Kildrummie Castleagainst King Edwards
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