On February 10, 1306, a killing inside a church in the Scottish border town of Dumfries turned a long, faltering resistance into an open revolution. Before the high altar of Greyfriars Church, Robert the Bruce struck down his political rival John Comyn. In medieval…
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By the autumn of 1322, the long and bitter war between England and Scotland reached a decisive turning point. King Edward II, whose disastrous leadership had already been exposed in his defeat at Bannockburn eight years earlier, faced a resurgent Robert the Bruce determined…
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The morning of June 24, 1314, dawned on a sodden and bloodied field near the Bannock Burn, where the fate of a nation hung by a thread. By day’s end, that thread would not snap but be reforged into iron. Against impossible odds, a…
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