Or is this just another inaccuracy in the Braveheart film!?
Sorry, if I'm wrong!.
I was just wondering, so I can know for future reference!.
I'm Scottish myself and quite ashamed I don't know this!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Sorry, if I'm wrong!. I was just wondering, so I can know for future reference!. I'm Scottish myself and quite ashamed I don't know this!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: YES IT IS!.!.the Welsh also helped!. im half Irish, half English,English born and bread though, you shouldnt feel ashamed as its nothing too do with you!. a German in Berlin today isnt a nazi, i didnt enslave any black people and an American in N!.Y!. today hasnt killed any red indians!. ps an Australian guy in Scotland with an American accent fighting for Scotland!.!.!.!. you should be ashamed of hollywood for that!! xWww@QuestionHome@Com Well I'm Irish and Scottish and I'm not that totally sure but I know for a fact that that battle in Braveheart that the scottish lost (Falkirk) was wrong!. The Scottish used a skimitron tactic and just got annilated because of it!. I don't believe that the Irish ever helped the scottish at that battle!. It was just movie majic but they probably helped the scottish some how since the english were there common enemy!. Love to hear questions about our heritage!. Don't be ashamed though!. Lots of people don't really know that question!. I'm probably the only one in my family that really knows it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Irish even crowned Edward Bruce as High King of Ireland in 1316!. Robert later went there with another army to assist his brother!. To go with the invasion, Bruce popularized an ideological vision of a "Pan-Gaelic Greater Scotia" with his lineage ruling over both Ireland and Scotland!. This propaganda campaign was aided by two factors!. The first was his marriage alliance from 1302 with the de Burgh family of the Earldom of Ulster in Ireland; second, Bruce himself on his mother's side of Carrick, was descended from Gaelic royalty--in Scotland!. Thus, lineally and geopolitically, Bruce attempted to support his anticipated notion of a pan-Gaelic alliance between Scottish-Irish Gaelic populations, under his kingship!. This is revealed by a letter he sent to the Irish chiefs, where he calls the Scots and Irish collectively nostra nacio (our nation), stressing the common language, customs and heritage of the two peoples: “Whereas we and you and our people and your people, free since ancient times, share the same national ancestry and are urged to come together more eagerly and joyfully in friendship by a common language and by common custom, we have sent you our beloved kinsman, the bearers of this letter, to negotiate with you in our name about permanently strengthening and maintaining inviolate the special friendship between us and you, so that with God’s will our nation (nostra nacio) may be able to recover her ancient liberty!.” The diplomacy worked to a certain extent, at least in Ulster, where the Scots had total support!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Irish and the Scottish have, throughout history, fought both side by side and adverseries just as many times, with just as many variations as English/irish English/scottish combinations!. Basing the study history on Mel Gibson films is a bit like basing aviation theory on Superman films!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Yes there was some Irishmen, there was also some Italians & Frenchmen even some EnglishmenWww@QuestionHome@Com |