The last one:

Scotland would not be the same without the person these next few lines will talk about. He is relatively well-known thanks to a blockbuster film by Mel Gibson, but, unfortunately, as with all that comes from Hollywood, that movie does not paint an accurate picture. It is a great piece, but only an interpretation of this symbolic man’s life. The true story would take hundreds of pages to tell, and as I don’t have that kind of space, I present you a shortened one. I could have written this on my own, I actually did, but it did not come close to the one you’ll read if you scroll down. Sir WilliamWallace inspired the centuries and the people coming after him like no one else, in not just Scottish, but probably all of history. He is still revered all around the world, his legacy will never be forgotten, and anyone who ever comes into contact with the concept of liberty, freedom, and self-sacrifice sooner or later hears about him. He shaped the essence of a whole country, and its people. Scotland and Scottish people would not be the same without him. The last entry couldn’t have been about anybody or anything else.

Sir William Wallace:

"Wallace had behind him the spirit of a race as stern and as resolute as any bred among men. He added military gifts of a high order. Out of an unorganized mass of valiant fighting men he forged, in spite of cruel poverty and primitive administration, a stubborn, indomitable army, ready to fight at any odds and mock defeat."

Sir Winston Churchill*

Scotland's National Hero, William Wallace, was born c. 1270, the second of three sons of Sir Malcolm Wallace of Elderslie, Renfrewshire. In 1297, William Wallace led an uprising against the English which spread throughout south and central Scotland. Teaming with Sir Andrew de Moray and his men, the Scottish forces soundly defeated the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Following this victory, Wallace was knighted and became Guardian of the Realm.
A year after Stirling, William Wallace was defeated at Falkirk and spent the next several years on the run, both in Scotland and on the continent, before being captured and cruelly executed as a traitor to England on August 23, 1305.

A two-year campaign, one resounding victory, one final defeat, followed by obscurity and death.
It seems a pretty slim career for a man who has been remembered and honoured for 700 years. Why is William Wallace Scotland's National Hero?

Great men and women make history happen through their passion, whether for good or ill. A power-mad, charismatic leader can gain himself an empire, only to have it turn to dust upon his death, because the hearts of the people have been left untouched. William Wallace was a great man whose passion for national freedom kindled the spark of independence, sheltered within the breast of every Scot, into an unquenchable flame that burns to this day. His impact on the people of his time, and of all time, was immediate and permanent.

In 1320, the Scots nobles sent a letter to Pope John XXII seeking a change of heart on the Bruce's excommunication. Called the "Declaration of Arbroath" it states in part:

For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive we shall never in any wise consent to submit to the rule of the English, for it is not for glory we fight, for riches, or for honours, but for freedom alone, which no good man loses but with his life.**

Freedom - of heart, soul and mind - was the gift of William Wallace to the Scottish people - a gift to which they have clung ever after.

*Churchill, Sir Winston, The Birth of Britain, Vol. 1 of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples(Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc., 1956).
**Mackie, J.D., A History of Scotland.

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