Edward I crushes Wallace at Falkirk
July 22, 1298
The English king, having returned from Flanders, hunted down the Scottish army and broke its schiltron formations with longbowmen. Wallace escaped but lost his credibility as a field commander. The war for Scottish independence would continue without him for another decade. The battle demonstrated the devastating effectiveness of the English longbow against massed infantry, a lesson that would be perfected at Crecy and Agincourt.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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