@Trinitarian said:
@GarGx1: @GarGx1:Your right i forget at the very end of the movie it didnt actually show the battle were Robert the Bruce was supposed to pay homage to the King and receive his endorsement to become King of the Scotts. Thus, i suppose thats technically not the last battle in the movie, but it was the final battle i was referring to in my analogy. I assumed Robert the Bruce won that battle as well as its subsequent ones after that since they eventually fought for and won their independence.
The Battle Of Bannockburn was fought because his brother made a deal with the garrison to stop the siege if England came up to relieve it. Edward II, instead of simply relieving it said "well, we are here, we have superior troops, let's end it". Edward II refused to acknowledge Bruce as king and he would most likely have been tortured and killed like the rest of his family he had lost.
When he got word that there was in-fighting and general disarray of the English army, they decided to fight. Manipulating them into fighting on bad topography.
Although the English objectivity had more and superior equipped troops, they had crippled themselves with class pomposity. Where as Bruce had drilled his men to act in unison i.e. pull finger out ass, and unlike Wallace (who used a static Shiltron) his moved offensively, and he had the common sense to get rid of the long bow archers as soon as they starting reining down death.
Although later battles happened, that was the last major one and basically signaled the end for Edward II. Bruce himself became ill.
Here's a pony over-dramatizing it.
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