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"By God, Sir Earl, either go or suspend." - Edward Longshanks Of their very beginnings, England and Scotland fought one another. Appearing as unified nations from the early medieval period, their distributed boundary and related aristocracy created infinite causes of conflict. Every hundred years from the 11th to the 16th was colored by such assault, and there were periods when not a decade passed without some action of assault marring the peacefulness. Out of most of the, the most bitterly kept in mind conflict is Edward I's invasion during the late 13th hundred years. Eventually beaten back after Edward's death at the famous Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, this was the time of a few of Scotland's greatest nationwide heroes, including William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. It still resonates in the Scottish nationwide memory, all the more so after its memorable but wildly inaccurate depiction in the 1995 film Braveheart, which experienced Scottish viewers cheering in cinemas. Though the fondly remembered heroes of the battle are Scottish, the person who defined it was an English monarch, a guy whose ruthless efficiency and brutality would earn him the subject Hammer of the Scots. This was, for better or for worse, Edward I's battle.
