Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1928, Page 82

Bu 1206 A D JoHN BALIOL§ KING OF SCOTLAND, REHOUNE) S/ RIS ALLEGIANCE To KING r EPWARD 1 OF ENGLAND. EDWARD PROMPTLY INVADED & EWARD DETHRONED BAtioL AND SENT HIM AS A CAPTIVE } 7O LONPON,.FOR A TIME ' 8 THE SCOTCH WERE OVER-AWEIL 4 BY THE PRESENSE OF ENGLISH | SOLDIERS AMONG' THEM, AND | MOST OF THE SCOTTISH [ NOBLES HASTENED TO \ suBMIT To THE AufHoR ¥ ILLIAM WALLACE. (1272-1305) B3t & nveE whHEN THE PERMANENT CONQUEST OF SCOTLAND BY THE ENGLISH SEEMED ASSURED, A GREAT LEADER APPEARED AND /AROUSED THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE IN THE SCOTS . THIS MAN WAS WILLIAM WALLA E THEN CROSSED THE BORDER INTO ENGLAND, LAY ING WASTE THE NORTHERN SHIRES, H1S VICTORIOUS APVANCE WAS ONLY HALTED BY A LACK OF SUPPLIES AND THE COMING OF WINTER. Bxsoaymeep BY THIS DETEAT, WALLACE RESIGNED THE GUARDIAN- SHIP OF SCOTLAND: HE BECAME A HUNTED FUGITIVE WITH A PRICE-ON IS HEAD, HOUNDED AT EVERY TURN BY THE ENGUISH SoLDIERS, —© ‘T'T‘ A SMA FOLLOWERS WALLACE WON RENOWN BY MARING DARING RAIPS UPON THIS SCOTCH CASTLES AND TOWNS HELD BY THE ENGLISH SOLDIERS. - S s A REWARD FOR HIS VALIANT SERVICES, WALLACE WAS CHOSEN GQUARPIAN OF SCOTLAND. HE Now SOUGHT TO STRENGTHEN SCOTLAND S DEFENSES AND RESTORE FORGIGH TRADE . Bree AvoIpING CAPTURE For A LONG TlME, WALLACE WAS AT LAST BETRAVYED BY A TREACHEROUS SERQVANT AND MADE A PRISONER B8Y HIS ENEMIES. ° Bo successruL was WALLACE HIS WARFARE AGAINST THE ENGLISH THAT HE ATTRACTED A NUMBER OF- POWERFFUL SCOTTISH NOBLES, INCLUDING DouGLAS AND BRUCE,TO HIS BANNIER. Bererrned 1o crusH THE Scots, EDWARD OF ENGLAND RAISED AN ARMY OF 10,000 HORSEMEN AND 80,000 FOOT SOLDIERS, AND WITH THIS MIGHTY HOST INVADED ScoTLAND (1298), BAKEH TO LONDON, LOADED WITH CHA(NS, HE WAS MARCHED THRouGH THE STREETS AMID> THE TALUNTS AND INSULTS OF THE CROWPD. BROUGHT To TRIAL,HE WAS SPEEDILY CONVICTED OF TREASON ANP DOOMEP To BIE. —° OF THE ENGLISH IKING ‘i1 Au ARMY OF 40,000 ScoTS, WALLACE CRUSHED THAT OF LORD WARENNE, NUMBERING 51,000, AT STIRLING ON SEPTEMBER 14,1297, AND ‘DRONE THE ENGLISH FRoM SCOTLAND. ALLACE LED AN ARMY TO OPPOSE THE ENGLISH AND A GREAT BATTLE WAS FOUGHT AT FALKIRK . THE SCoTS FOUGHT BRAVELY,BUT WERE BAPLY BEATEN AND FORCED TO FLEE TO - - ® McClure Newspaper' Syndicate UGUST 23,1305, WILLIAM WALLACE WAS PUT Y10 DEATH WITM ALL THE i BARBAROUS CRUELTY OF THAT DAY. ' THUS PERISHED ONIE OF SCOTLANBS | BRAVEST HEROCES AND NOBLEST | PATRIOTS. —— J