June 26th photograph of the Bannockburn Memorial in
Ceres,
Fife,
Scotland. A modern memorial dedicated to the men from Ceres who fought in the
Battle of Bannockburn.
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The Battle of Bannockburn, fought over two days on 23rd and 24th June in 1314 by a small river crossing in
Stirling, was a decisive victory for Robert the Bruce in the Scottish Wars of Independence against the English. It was the greatest defeat the English would suffer throughout the Middle Ages, and a huge personal humiliation for King Edward II. Chris Brown's startling new history recreates the campaign and battle from the perspectives of both the Scots and English. Only now, through an in-depth investigation of the contemporary narrative sources as well as the administrative records, and through a new look at the terrain where the battle was fought, can we really begin to understand what exactly happened, and why. The author's conclusions rewrite the history books.
Bannockburn, 1314: A New History
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