Why wasn't Scotland Conquered by England? - The First Scottish War of Independence
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Hi
Hello. Please is it ok for you to share the tool used for making your maps? 😊 Thanks.
What the hell is that 1296 map ! , it couldn't be more inaccurate .
This is the best video I have seen of explaining this history between the Scots and England during the Scottish Independence. Great graphics and easy to learn commentary.
Why didn't the USA get involved? It does sound like their kind of conflict to profit
And why do many French names involved in the brawl
@@Kevin-bl6lgThe USA didn't exist then you fool.
@@Kevin-bl6lgNormans, Bruce was a Norman-Gael
@@Kevin-bl6lgthe U.S. didn't exist then.
There must be a reason why the Romans built a wall to keep the Scots in 😂😂😂😂😂
They actually conquered a good amount of territory. But they couldn’t hold it due to supply lines and not enough roads for logistics. There was too much guerrilla warfare for the legions to handle so they abandoned Scotland and built a wall to establish a barrier to ward off attacks and warn others of the danger of the picts.
Wall*
Actually a wall not a war 🤓🤓🤓.
There were no scots then. just celtic tribes like the picts and gaels
@@aligedbrick they are predecessors to the Scots. Do not try to be like me.🤓🤓🤓
The role of the Scottish Catholic Church was absolutely critical in my opinion. It remained resolutely Scottish throughout the entire era. Bishops Robert Wishart of Glasgow and William de Lamberton of St Andrews ruled the Scottish church from the 1290s onward. Both were fervent nationalists. Despite the largely Anglo Norman blood of the former. This prevented Edward Longshanks from establishing legitimacy over Scotland as the bishops actively resisted him at every turn. And given that the Scottish church reported directly to Rome (or Avignon after 1309), Edward wasn't able to neutralize their influence.
This was most critical in the crowning of Robert the Bruce in 1306 despite him murdering his rival John Comyn inside a church whilst under sanctuary. It would have taken an extraordinary amount of patriotic fervour for medieval era bishops to ignore that most terrible of crimes. But they did so without a qualm and so secured the legitimacy of Bruce's succession. His coronation took place within weeks of that murder which in the context of the times is truly extraordinary.
The papacy was not amused; excommunicating Bruce twice (once in 1306 directly for that crime and then again in 1317 for failing to observe a ceasefire as ordered by the papacy). Before finally and very reluctantly come around to accepting the decision of the Scottish bishops to consecrate Bruce as the rightful king of Scotland. As late as the 1320s they were still negotiating with the papacy whilst under excommunication. The bishops created a fait accompli in 1306 and eventually Avignon was forced to accept that fact.
This issue was finally sealed by the Scottish Churches issuing the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320 which set out the formal ecclesiastical/legal case for Scottish independence. Which was formulated under the approving eye of Lamberton himself. Twin documents which were signed by all senior bishops and Scottish noblemen.
The critical role of those 2 most senior Scottish bishops in securing the legitimacy of Scottish independence (which was what crowning Bruce represented) by creating facts on the ground that proved impossible to overturn is almost completely forgotten today.
It contrasts sharply with Ireland where the Catholic church was hijacked early by Anglo Normans who appointed all the key bishops thereafter with the blessing of Rome. This prevented any Gaelic lord even of royal blood from claiming the throne and uniting the Irish clans. In the early 13th century, Brian ua Neill who had impeccable royal blood connections tried but couldn't get the pure Normal blooded senior bishops of the Catholic church to recognise him. And without that legitimacy and official church blessing more than two third of the Gaelic Irish lords remained inactive.
Meanwhile in Scotland, the rest was all down to the incredible military talents of Bruce who could read battlefields better than Napoleon. And some long spears....
to be fair, that little catch is the reason Scotland isn't independent today. So, in a way, Edward III was more successful in taking Scotland then both his father and grandfather XD
It depends, in 1603 the Scottish crown took over the English one in a personal union so...still the Scots "won". However I'd take what I said very loosely
@@chekiefloofderg4997The Scots didn’t win though. The power was still in England and by the time Britain was officially created through the acts of the Union the Stuarts were on the way out
@@sebe2255 oh no no, I'm not saying "the Scots won", far from it. England was the actual political centre in the british isles, undoubtedly. Besides, as you said, the Stuart ruled during a very tumultuous period, they never gained enough power not prestige to grant them enough safety thus...they have always been since the beginning on a descending spiral.
Technically England isn't independent from Scotland.
It was the Scottish king who took over England and made the union
@@vatsal7640England was always the dominant power. And when the Kingdoms officially merged the Stuarts were already on the way out and about to be replaced by random Germans from
Hannover
That just broke all the lovers of braveheart as William Wallace just slipped away and disappeared!!!!
Hollywood V's Reality
@@MASTERATCOD4 exactly bro. They didn't even have kilts during that period lol
Very Monty Python-esque 🤣
He did "disappear" in the movie though. Remember that scene where he assassinated a bunch of nobles after he was betrayed by his friend? Then afterwards he got captured and tortured in front of everyone.
Robert the Bruce was always the bigger hero.
Scotland just kept not giving up.
Until they eventually did, unlike the Irish who never gave up until they achieved independence and stayed that way.
@@ranica47they divided Scotland with religion and turned Scot against Scot 🏴
@ranica47 because they're better off. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all spend more than their gdps. Ireland would be thriving now instead of being a tax haven to foreign companies
Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍
Love all your videos keep up the good work
Thank you so much! Consider sharing :)
@@Knowledgiawill you do a video about the English taking over Ireland
"No man holds his own flesh & blood in hatred, and I am no exception.
I must leave now and join my own people, the nation of Scotland.
Choose then whether you will join me, or depart"
King Robert the Bruce 💙
Very well explained. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Broken neck from horseback fall?
Bs. I call shenanigans on that.
Murdered.
Wow. As a Turk, I had heard of the Scottish-English rivalry, but I did not know it was this competitive. I thought it was based more on one-sided British superiority. I congratulate the Scots for their honorable struggle.
English *
The Scots and English are both British. There's no British superiority struggle
Infact ironically the English never once ever called ourselves British prior to 1707. Only the Welsh and Scottish did. The romans called Picts a ancestor people of the Scots as British. While the Saxons and Angles were considered German. So If we're technical the Scots are British not the English.
But that's not the point. This wasn't a war of britishness. It's a Anglo-Scottish war.
The native Celts of Scotland and the Germans of England.
I mean technically Scotland is a clan society some Scottish clans are Anglo-Saxon not Celtic but they still celticized so it doesn't matter as they're not English but you get the point.
People are under the misconception that Britishness = Englishness.
Likely because England is the most influential and commandeered the title quite often. But in modern definition British is everyone in Britain.
In 1707 onwards the son rule brittannia was written by a scot, many British Empire colonial scientists, soldiers, governors, and more we're also Scottish.
The British English interchange is a common slip of the tongue.
Your the whitest Turk profile photo I have ever seen.
?? scots and english are both british lol
@@Exiyle what goddamn island do you think we live on?
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 was replying to that guy. not sure why foreigners think british means england lol
Great video. The backstabbing and personal ambitions of the upper classes on both sides of the border resulted in many peasant deaths of both English and Scots alike. Sad that the selfish actions of a few self serving rich people has enshrined a long standing distrust between what should be two friendly countries.
Nothings changed, it's the same families living off the peasants north & south of the border keeping the divide as disharmony suits the fuedal system
Excatly both us and England have been shafted for generations by the elite classes operating in London.
Usually the way the ambition and schemes of those in power sending ordinary people to their doom in order to keep them on their thrones. Note how the hatred between England and France began after the Norman conquest funnily enough we aren't told this in our potted school history for some reason
Ongoing, even to this day. Though in more subtle modern ways.
Oh and love how 75% of the comments are sugar coated word *hidden* Nobility must be running YT too.
You guys are getting better everyday !
Hard to believe that's the same England that decimated the French at the battle of Crecy just a decade or so later.
well french were divided. wales took alot of energy and scotland needed the highlands to fall but the scot spy network was has to tame.
King Edward was amazing and won most of the battles. It was his kids that failed.
England lost the 100 Years war to a French-Scots alliance.
They had perfected longbow tactics by then. But during the Scottish wars of independence, they were still experimenting with it.
The English won far more battles in it's war with Scotland than they lost,, but you only hear about Scotland's two big victories these days
can you make history of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth @Knowledgia?
One of my official nations England always being a rivarly with the neighbouring Scotland and this was one of the reasons,though the armies could not conquer them despite having a stronger force than them,good friends!!!🙏
One of your official nations?
Yeah, we officially belong to depekthegreat359. He is Lord Paramount of England
@@Pine_of_England LMAO
They did conquer though. The hills saved Scotland in alot of battles.
Found the American
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stop fibbin
LOL
Nice video
"Here’s tae us! Wha’s like us? Gey few, and they’re a’ deid!"
Translation:
“Here’s to us! Who’s like us? Damn few, and they’re all dead!”
(Rabbie - (Robert) - Burns)
Thanks you very much for the history
What's ironic is the UK was created by the Scottish Stuart's technically in 1603 or somewhere around that time.
No the Kingdom of Great Britain was created in 1707. This was during the “reign” of the last Stuart monarch. But Anne wasn’t a strong monarch, and she simply inherited because William of Orange and Mary II didn’t have kids. After Anne King George I of house of Hannover was asked to become king
@@sebe2255 there was the union crowns which you have forgotten. Which was in the 1600s. Not as strong as the 1700s union though
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 You said the UK though. Which was even later than 1707, that was 1801 when the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was created. 1707 is Great Britain and 1600 is just the personal union between Scotland and Ireland
@@sebe2255 I ultimately am trying to date when they were affectively one kingdom ruled.
1603, 1707 and 1801 are all good dates
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Please do a video the true story of macbeth and delve in to David's invasion with the stewarts and the Bruce's 👍
So that's how Paramount pictures got its name. Thanks, Edward!
nice video, the scottish war of independence certainly was a long an complicated story
William Wallace is 7ft tall!
yes I've heard. He's killed men by the thousands. And if he was here, he would shoot balls of fire from his eyes and bolts of lightening from his arse.
@@theawesomeman9821he was killed by the English. Lost everything so a loser.
My first and middle names are Robert Bruce….
According to legend, Robert was hiding in a cave and he saw a spider spinning a web.
He knocked it down, but the spider went back to work building its web. So Robert knocked it down again, and again……
So from watching this spider, Robert Bruce decided that it was time to do or die!
Robert Bruce left that cave, rejoined his army and beat the English Army and won the war for independence.
I'm not much for royalty. But as a man with Blackstock blood in my veins, I can appreciate 😊😅what the Scotsman had to do in order to be free of the English crown. Those were some damn tough men in those days. Damn tough indeed.
Channels been on fire some great stuff recently though I’m a Scot so obviously enjoy our history been show to a wide audience, keep up the good work and if I may could you do a bud on Kind David I of Scots he was the king that changed Scotland from a Gaelic Kingdom to a Feudal one it’s a fascinating story the shows the complex politics and society of our wee realm.🏴
You have to realise that they were all Black from Africa !!!
@@davidboon5906 my ancestors were actually gender neutral black trans,you bigot.
@@davidboon5906 back on your meds now david
Great video, the real game of thrones?
Incorrect map(s):
As used here and elsewhere, maps showing 'England' extending northwards into present Scotland are incorrect.
Scotland has historically been invaded and occupied by England - indeed arguably today that country has excessively too much influence over life in Scotland.
Scotland, however, is the older established country, and while events such as the Norman conquest of England forced the Border back ultimately to its present position, that position has been fairly consistently established for many centuries.
Moreover, at no time during the country's history has Scotland, or part thereof been 'England' (notwithstanding pockets of 'debatable lands' along a Border fought over throughout history) - and nor will it be.
Distinct and individual countries.
That really pissed me off, england has never been the whole island,
FREEDOM!!!
Islamic freedom..😂😂
@@evinthomas3324 Keep dreaming!
O flower of Scotland
When will we see
Your like again
That fought and died for
Your wee bit hill and glen
That stood against him
Proud Edwards army
And sent them homeward
To think again.
Those days are past now
And in the past
They must remain
For we can survive now
And be the nation again
That stood against him
Proud Edwards army
And sent them homeward
To think again.
I like how the English-Scottish border almost exactly follows Hadrians Wall, built some 1100 years prior
Well England rules all of Hadrian's wall, a few miles north of it
Pls do the conquest of cumbria
braveheart ❤
Ah the good ole days.
The Greeks were teaching mathematics and science when the British were still painting their faces blue & white and living in the forest ..
(Mel Gibson) wore a kilt. It is because Scots used to wear them, but not in 1300 in which the movie was set. Wearing a kilt became popular in the 1600s.
Does any ruler ever consider peace a more desirable way to go? As a historian, I still find it disturbing that this question isn’t rhetorical.
Peace doesn't gain you land and resources
Ur a historian ?! 😂
@@MagicButterz bingo. Need resources and men and land to be successful so why question it?
This is actually a good question. Sometimes wars cost more than they gain and it would have been better off for everyone if they hadn't been fought at all. I guess people start wars because they think they can win fast enough to gain more than they lose.
If you were a historian, you would understand that medieval Europe was a culture where peacetime was not a normal status for a society. Wartime was the norm.
The English couldn’t pull a Carthage war like the Almighty Romans did. Very interesting. I was wondering why Scotland wanted to continue to be part of the EU.
the romans lost half the european land mass to muslims lmao
because I dont allow it - Robert the Bruce
0:01: 💀 King Alexander III of Scotland dies, leaving his unborn child and granddaughter as potential heirs to the throne.
3:34: 🏴 Edward I of England swiftly took over Scotland, with the Guardians and Scottish nobles pledging allegiance to him.
7:29: 🏴 Scotland prepares for war against England with the help of France.
10:39: 💀 The English invasion of Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence resulted in a brutal massacre of the town of Carlisle and the castle of the Earl of March.
13:17: 🏴 The Scots, led by William Wallace, successfully defended themselves against the English troops and were named Guardian of Scotland.
16:42: 🏴 Edward's violent campaigns in Scotland continue, with battles and captures marking the re-escalation of the war.
19:48: 🏴 The Scots, led by Robert the Bruce, successfully fought against the English and reclaimed several castles in the early 14th century.
Recap by Tammy AI
I'm in the first minute and I can't help but wonder if this is a history fact or a game intro
It was briefly
The map showed the Orkney Islands as being part of Scotland in 1290. This is wrong since Orkney was then part of Norway.
I heard the movie "Braveheart" is the most historically accurate movie about this event
I read a review a few years ago that Star Wars was more historically accurate than Braveheart...
Watch outlaw king. It's much better
Because of their alliance with France according to EU IV😅
So it's Robert de Bruce who is the real "brave heart"
No William Wallace was brave heart Robert the Bruce was the one who got Scotland it’s freedom yes however it was William Wallace who started the rebellion again in the first place with 0 connections to royalty Nobels or anything else he managed to claim back almost the entire country of Scotland without that Robert the Bruce wouldn’t have stood a chance of fighting for Scotlands freedom
Why wasn't Scotland Conquered by England?
People tend to fight back when you try to conquer them. They don't make it easy for you.
And the Scots fought back harder than most.
I mean eventually it was and is til this day
And the Scots tried to invade England many many many many times and did so, I think outsiders view it like braveheart that it was a 1 way thing we were both fighting each other for centuries and centuries scotland was the same size as England back then too. England just over time won out in the power struggle
Firstly England never conquered Scotland so I have no Idea what you're talking about. Secondly, stop trying to come up with excuses as to why England got defeated by a kingdom that had far less people, land and resources. And finally, Scotland only invaded England in order to counter English forces terrorising the Scottish borders.@@flyinghigh2724
@@CFC-ur7np
You need to look up your history mate . The Scot’s invaded England loads of times before the Scottish wars of independence
I can't believe Mel Gibson lied to me.
Were still telling the english to shuv there union up there arse 😉🏴🏴
Give us the money back, you had of us an you can have the shithole,🏴
'Their'
Free Alba!
I wish I hadn’t watched this! I used to like the English so much and I wanted them to keep ruling over us.
I thought it was great that we had all that oil to keep England afloat economically! It was the least we could do; wasn’t it? I was looking forward to our fresh water resources being made available to the wonderful English People. We have so much; after all!
And our renewable energy resources? I was excited to think that we could help our wonderful neighbours with cheap electricity.
But after watching this I have realised that English are not really our friends! I am devastated! I’m not sure I even like them anymore……….. 😱😭😭😭
That's a tough one Thomas eh.. hahahaha Thig ar latha.
thank you for such a great video! this was a very successful attempt to make me hate England!
Having been there beautiful people and country. Climate sucks rugged terrain
18:01 / 22:53
Why didn't scottish reach out to irish kingdoms and welsh kingdoms even the cornish
Because they didn't consider it advantageous enough to make a difference. It's not just about ethnic closeness or common enemy.
@@joshygoldiem_j2799 would've distracted the English and overstretched the forces
Ireland wasn't a recognised kingdom during the Scottish wars of independence.
Interestingly, after Bannockburn, Scotland & England waged a kind of proxy war in Ireland. Both sides had significant support from different Irish clans. In any case, England eventually won
And king Robert thus lost, I believe all of his brothers campaigning against England.
His last last brother died trying to seize the throne of Ireland - or died trying to remove the English from Ireland. (Depending on your perspective)
But as said in the video, the Scottish-French alliance probably secured Scottish independence in the subsequent centuries.
Some Scots considered it but were not sure about the Irish Kingdoms loyalties, some were pro-english and others were anglo-irish normans
Oh and btw, they *did* reach out to France which was much more powerful than any of the above.
Wonderful historical coverage of that complicated and shallow mobilizes issue above Britain 🇬🇧 named Scotland...thank you (knowledgia) channel
I’m about as American as you can get however the question posed seems kinda ridiculous. I mean has the questioner MET a Scottish person?! You ain’t conjuring them!
Think it was though! Great Britain was formed and we are the bosses of that 🏴
Your the boss of nothing though
You can’t even manage your own country ever mind the might of Scotland. Your country is in an absolute state, over run by the Empire’s People 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, bet you wish you voted to stay 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
....
It was , have you never seen braveheart ?
Who is the narrator?
Why is the border almost always wrong?... its not hard... it literally follows geography... my guy, many of those castles were very close to the border... the river tweed was the de facto Anglo-Scottish border after the Scottish annexation of Lothian in the 10th century (it was a quite a politically sensitive topic in the 12th & 13th centuries), before the contemporary Solway-Tweed border of today that were all familiar with which dates back to the Treaty of York 1237.
Great-great-grand-pappy Edward was always too land greedy for his own good.
because they put up a strong resistance
"And they may take our lives! But they will never take our freedom!"-William Wallace
Well the English did take his life and cut him into little bit. Then showed his body parts all over England.
@@ABanRocksthen lost later wars to the people William Wallace gave the opportunity to rise eventually gaining its own independence how ironic you stopped half way through the story and forgot about the later half were he got what he fought for lol
Brothers 🏴🤝🏴
Never 🏴🇪🇺
Well William Wallace not as good as in the movie. De Morey and Robert the Bruce are those who did the most effective battles and taking freedom for their land.
But 1st to rebellion against the English, he had so much determination I think
Scotland conquered england
Yes it did with the help of English rebel barons and the King of France and his army.
@@lordjazoijua94 alone
I mean you didn’t
@@Daniel-wy3tc i did today and also last week
The island of Great Britain and its great history never ends 🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴
Scotland is a nation of islands, not just the territory found on the island of GB.
The UK is an illegitimate state and has no right to exist.
and it's incredibly stupid that there are separatist elements in all the countries of the British Isles seeking independence when the whole world recognises the UK as a power house but with Independence all the others except England wouldn't be any good in the power rankings and look down upon all the great achievements of the Empire, all empires have sinned and every successful empire had to crush others in order to succeed that was the way the world worked but modern morals questioning history is stupid and should accept history as it is and be proud of it.
Wasn’t William Wallace being a diplomat during the period that he “disappeared”
The poverty of Scotland is what formed it's best defence, it was only until the living standards of the English began to so demonstrably out strip the Scottish that they ditched political independence for financial dependance.
Forget about the cavalry, it's all about the money.
Excellent video
Thank you!
Scotland nearly conqured some of England during King David. 1100s. 1138 - King David I of Scotland invaded England in support of his niece Matilda's claim to the English throne against that of King Stephen. The Scots were defeated at the Battle of the Standard, sometimes called the Battle of Northallerton. Despite this defeat the Scots occupied northern England until 1157.
:( poor Scotland
sad fact is most scottish people dont know much of the history.. tho i supose it doesnt make much differacnce to modern life lol
Thats not Scotland and England. That's one Norman overlord, helping another Norman overlord.
Shetland and Orkney were Norwegian until 1472. The Isle of Man was also Norwegian.
Even Dublin, which was founded by Norwegians, was the main seat of Norwegian kings until well into the 13th century.
They were Scots prior to Norway annexing them. The time since their return is now as long as Norwegian rule.
There was settlements all over ireland, the vikings built ports but there was settlements there before they came. But to this day, the only cities in ireland is where they made ports. Dublin, belfast, derry, galway, limerick, Cork, waterford all due to vikings but then they got their ass beat outta there in the future years
@@brianoholain2035 Dublin was Norwegian for hundreds of years. The most famous battle in Ireland was Norwegians against Ireland. The most famous church in Ireland is located in Dublin built by Norwegians. The most famous person in Ireland is a Norwegian who is buried in the cathedral in Dublin. They did the DNA of Irish men and women, it turns out that most people who live in Ireland also have genes from the west coast of Norway. Being Irish means that Norwegians were never kicked out but became part of the Irish population.
You know what surprised me? The fact that the Scots never tried to repair the Hadrian Walls to prevent the English from coming in by land like at all. Because if they did, the English Kings who attempted to go war with Scotland will either needed a fleet or try to bring down the walls. So yeah, both options are big waste of times, manpower and resources and definitely not worth it.
Perhaps the fact that Hadrian's Wall is entirely within the English border.
@@Painter.Wane92 And the Antonine Wall?
@@lerneanlion Far, far inside Scotland. Roughly half the Scottish Lowlands are between the Antonine Wall and the border.
@@Painter.Wane92 So unless the Scottish King willingly given up half of the Lowlands and repaired the walls, what left of Scotland will be safe, right?
If this happened, it will be worth it? Just imagine the refugees' crisis from that part of the Lowland alone flooded into the lands behind the Antonine Wall is quite something.
@@lerneanlion No Scottish king could even think of that. If you pause the video at 13:12, you'll see how much land must be abandoned. Everything south of that battle.
They didnt try to get help from the french since it was a comon ennemi ?
Because they are Scottish. Any other questions.
My guess would be it is a mountainous and sparsely populated area so the juice was not worth the squeeze. If they had really wanted to they could have.
England made numerous attempts to subjugate scotland over the years and all of them failed. It wasn't through a lack of trying - they were just never able to pull it off.
I'm reliably informed that Mel Gibson, wearing a kilt, singlehandedly defeated the English.
...Are you telling me that's not true??
I'm only 2 mins and 4 seconds in. I'll watch the rest in a second. But, why isn't Orkney coloured purple like Shetland and the Faroese islands. Orkney AND Shetland only became Scottish in 1474, I think. Or 1468. Anyway, Orkney should be Norwegian at this point in history. Prior to the Treaty of Perth in 1266 ALL Scottish Island plus the Argyll penisular belonged to Norway. Of course they belonged to ALBA (Scotland) prior to 798.
Because we didn’t let them, simple as that. Our monarchies united, peacefully in 1603 and parliaments united, again peacefully in 1707. We will stay united.
Because Mel Gibson would never let that happen
Edward I kicked the moneychangers out of England in 1290. They fled to Scotland and tried to finance a reinvasion from there -- that's why the English attacked Scotland -- and succeeded -- the moneychangers (you know who they are) didn't get back into England until 1658 after they sponsored Cromwell
This guy just resited what I read on Wikipedia Lmao
Great video I’m a Scotsman and we will end English rule and regain our country and her freedom 🏴 Alba gu brath
Your king (I almost said you but Jake you haven't done shit your a individual not a collective) your Stuart kings of Scotland literally unified England and Scotland in the 1600s.
aye they did but the Stuart’s aren’t the ruling family anymore, the king of my country is English not Scottish and the prime minister of my country is English not Scottish. We are a country that want different things from England and its time we become our own country once again
@@jakesmith5344 our king last I know is German.
@@jakesmith5344 The prime minister isn't even English, what are you on about? Also, Charles is more German and Scottish (his grandmother, The Queen Mother, was Scottish), than English.
@@morganwheeleryear1123 Precisely free England from Germany.Also that Scottish royal blood ws drowned by foreign royal blood.
Scottish independence is a must. Look how they got dragged into exiting the EU..
You do understand that exiting the EU is a good thing right? Such an organization has no business existing.
@@chrisberrios5857 Let the Scottish decide their fate
Yeah ,being a part of a bureaucracy behemoth is a win.sute
Do understand how democracy works right?
Why would you want Scotland to exit one union to join another further away? Being part of the UK is good for Scotland so is being part of the EU. The UK should reapply to the EU as a whole and not as a splintered nation @@GeneralGayJay
Free Scotland
Are you Scottish, is this still going on?
Yes.., Free...2060... Muslim country..😂😂😂😂
😂😂2030 ...me...married with your mother😅😅😅😅😂😂😂@@evinthomas3324
Why wasn't England conquered by Scotland? They've also invaded us a few times. Might make for an interesting video to complement this one.
Because kicking England out of Scotland is one thing. To march an army to London is another.
Long story short in 1603 King James 6th of Scotland took over England without a shot being fired and the English have never forgotten it !!!
"Sauls bury" not "Sals bury".
Who’s the head of state & sovereign of Scotland? The current king/queen of England? I wouldn’t call that independent.
Also Scotland’s Referendums for independence show, Scotland isn’t independent.
They will be.
@@TheListOf I hope so.
@@John4ka Me, too.
We've never been independant since 1707 when the Scots gentry sold our country out after the darian fiasco, nothings changed, still the same devious blue bloods running us now, Scots are sheep just like the english are if they weren't it wouldn't be like it is
Its only a matter of time until England dissolves the Union and is free from Scotland, the continent and any other foreign powers... also personal union and parliamentary union are not the same thing... if you legislative body is not independent of foreign authority and or foreign powers... your Nation is not sovereign/independent. Also, if the technically illegal accession of James Charles Stuart in England in 1603 did not happen, as by law the Stuarts were excluded from inheriting the English throne... and there is no credible evidence that Elizabeth I designated nor likely be accepting of an accession of James Charles Stuart... let alone a willingness to disobey her fathers will/succession law... then England would have been better off... and Scotland still likely poor and backward compared to England.
England ruled Scotland for many years and English don't fight in a Scottish Army do they .
Where did you hear this gibberish?
Not in this video.
Of course, keep smoking the meth…….🤣🤣🤣🏴🇪🇺 Alba Gu Brath
The thing is, we all come from the same people, this whole part of history is the same shit now, it comes down to tribes, mafia, flags l, it's the same shit! We ain't learnt nothing from the past.
Same thing today. Poor people fighting a rich man’s war
If Edward Ii wasn't such a disaster of a king, Scotland might have been.
As usual, all we get in these comments is the endless bullying English hatred and contempt for their neighbour, a nation which predates England. It will never end simply because the English have always loathed the Celtic Fringe yet depended upon them for cannon fodder in order to enrich England. The English have been boasting about defeating Scotland with odds that were 10-1 against the Scots. They still treat Scotland by and large with nothing short of contempt. It will never end.
Have never heard such a load of bitter crap,, during the redcoat era, the British army was predominantly English, with lots of Irish, the Scots percentage never came near to its population percentage,,
I stand by every word of my comment which you have just underlined.
Beyond that that, I never engage in a battle of wits with those I consider to be, frankly, unarmed.
@@michaelwakeford2336 you can stand were you like, your still talking nonsense,, if you can name one battle where the English have outnumbered a Scottish army 10 to 1 , I'll apologize, incedentley I can think of one where the Scots outnumbered the English 20 to 1 and the English won, we just don't make your ears bleed going on about it
If you had better literacy you would not misquote me. There again, I was educated at a partly MoD funded public school in England, called Wellington, where I was trained for staff college.
I am not a young man, such as you are, so my knowledge is not going to hold a candle to yours but I spent a few years in battledress, so let’s just get that on the table.
I grew up in a military family and have several brevets as a Scottish historian.I became one as my elder brother, a guards officer in The Household Division and also former Senior Lecture in history at Cambridge and several other eminent universities, aroused much of my interest in military history. My other brother was at Eton College before becoming an officer both in The Parachute Regiment and subsequently in The Royal Marines. My father, raised in Aberdeen, was an officer in the Royal Air Force air crew for Bomber Command and was knighted for his gallantry in WW2.
So, you see, Mr Nash, I would have no comparable knowledge to you, and being in my 70s under a death sentence with cancer, I am really unable to spare you the many decades you would need in order to enrich me with your stupidity.
I may know very little about Scotland and England compared to your academic eminence, history wise, but I do live in a 700 year old Scottish castle in the midst of over 1500 acres of quite breathtaking and extremely historic countryside up here. Try not to worry, though, as it genuinely saddens me in that I have little affection for an England that once loved. I have trendies memories of England in the 1950s to the 1990s but saw dark clouds coming and chose to return home. It might surprise you to know that many English people concur and have fled your magnificent dystopian country and are now assimilating up here successfully. Of course, had they your attitude they would probably find themselves taken back to the border and encouraged to rethink how much they want to leave and never return. Scotland is a welcoming nation for decent English people, which I am very proud to see. You might not fit in too easily, though.
I am reasonable well known by the Prof Tony Pollard who could verify all this for you. Being that he is the most eminent and the World’s first ever professor of Battlefield Archeology my reference from him should perhaps suggest that I am not entirely unfamiliar with a tiny amount of military history, especially as my elder brother is well known as a former military intelligence officer. Had this not been mentioned with clearance nationally, I would not be able to mention it.
Now that I have revealed a little about my background, I have never stated that a battle took place whereby a Scottish army was outnumbered 10-1 by an English army. I also require no apology from you as it will not serve the conversation well. To suggest such a thing, though, is without any basis of fact. As for a reversal of these odds, Halidon Hill comes to mind and is indeed a shameful example of poor leadership in the annals of Scottish military history. Unlike you, Mr Nash, I have never stooped to this absurd approach of treating the histories nor the politics of Scotland and England as if it was an acrimonious football match. My own interest is purely academic and in the last decade I have been successfully researching a very large battlefield that has been removed from academia, mischievously. The fact that an English army was absolutely routed on it is interesting to me from the po,itical point of view but the fact that over 10,000 were slain there does not excite me due to them being English invaders. The only thing that really matters to me is that the site is respected and that the absolute truth is made available to the satisfaction of academics, locals and history enthusiasts. The battle was in 1308 so, fortunately, no one will be mourning anyone.
Your wild I’ll-considered statements are self-ridiculing are neither factual nor adroit in their construction. Apart from misquoting me spitefully, making it perfectly obvious that you are a young person and also a keyboard brave, sometimes referred to as a troll, so here are a few incredibly simple things you might consider. Obviously I do not expect you to consider anything from your elders, not that I really care about that as I am enjoying my last days in a magnificent home having had one heck of a life, though nothing that could compare with your own academic gravitas. The 10-1 ratio, if you read it without a preconception to distort it, never mentioned a battlefield, You invented that in order to twist my comment so that you could try and ridicule me.
There are (loosely estimated,) approximately 10 times as many people living in England as there are in Scotland . Throughout history this has been roughly the case. Now you can scream as much abuse in the absence of academic facts as you wish but I have it on an impeccable source that over 50% of our armed forces in the UK are drawn from Scotland. To suggest that Scotland does not punch above it’s weight militarily is shamefully misinformed. Few servicemen, if any, that I ever known in England would ever dispute this, but, I know-I you will because your a mouthy young person and a keyboard warrior with a little excess of ego. I was young 50 years ago, I get that, it isn’t a crime.
As regards the nonsense on red tunics, The New Model Army ( Note: Not The British Army, that did not exist in 1644, of course,) started the tradition after Sir Thomas Fairfax raised the funds to dress his troops from a gentleman in Rotterdam, named Manasseh Ben Israel, a Jewish war financier with his own consortium. There were several reasons that his money purchased a huge consignment of red fabric but the main reason was actually the price. Beyond the Zulu Wars in the 1880s the red tunics were phased out. In fact they were kept to this day, particularly for most of The Household Division when on Public Duties. Something I do know a teeny-weeny bit about.
‘so know we at least have this epoch of red tunics established, datewise. Battledress beyond the Zulu Wars was pretty much entirely khaki, a cloth that was first made for The War Office by a company called Fox in Somerset. I knew the factory quite well.
So let’s just look at another absurd and infantile response that shows you up for precisely that which you are,
18th April, 1746, at Culloden Muir. A British army, known correctly as, The Prince’s Army, on the basis that they were lead by Prince William Augustus of Hanover, rightly remembered by English people of slightly more moral fibre than yourself and by Scots alike as, Butcher Cumberland, were entirely attired in red tunics. That army, was largely composed of Lowland Scots. Even more bizarrely, the opposition, known incorrectly as The Highland Army, was also largely made of Lowland Scots. Yes, there were were foreign units and even English soldiers on both sides but the fight is a dynastic struggle between two families and two largely Lowland armies.
Even at Trafalgar on the 21st October 1805 there were proportionately more Scots, (Per capita,) present in Nelson’s fleet than there English. This can easily be verified as every single member of all the ship’s companies is mustered and available by application to The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, London.
I sincerely suggest you do some research beyond which I’d love to help you out but I just don’t have the time left in my life. You seem interested in the subject so throw the silly attitude away and engage with the subject like an adult and you might enjoy the upgrade.
Have a nice life, I did.
Goodbye!
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@@michaelwakeford2336 I have to thank you for thinking I'm a young man,, I'm 56, and my education ended when I was 14, so I ever had your advantages in the education department, as for service, i served with the rgj, my father was a para, grandfather Berkshire reg, great grandfather was killed in a German in a German trench in 1917, the year after he received the mm, for bringing back a wounded Ruppert, also during a trench raid, he was a royal Warwick,, my point is both countries have proud military traditions and most families also,
Won't be long til Scotland is independent again.
They tried and we kicked there arses