The Second Scottish War of Independence - Explained in 26 Minutes (1332 - 1357)
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Great video. This war isn't talked about enough.
Clearly that unnamed Scottish commander at Kinghorn had played CK3, so he knew the stat penalty to disembarking armies while Edward Baillol did not.
Edward Balliol won the battle though. It's actually one of the main rules in Sun Tzu art of war, always give the enemy a way to retreat because if they don't have a way out they have no choice but to fight to the death. A lot of battles are won because the enemy flees and breaks the ranks. But because they had nowhere to go but the sea they fought ferociously.
@@Writeous0ne You're completely correct. However, it was just a CK3 inside joke. ;)
Kinghorn is further west along the Fife coast, you have it where Leven is.
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Your videos are the best.
Would love to see videos on Mesoamerican and Andean history.
Wonder did other European powers get involved like Norway n Denmark or why didn't the Scottish allie themselves with Irish kingdoms who were also at odds with England?
The Irish kingdoms were rarely unified themselves. They had their own petty squabbles, vying for power
The French no doubt played a hand in it somewhere 😂
Most likely not, news travels slowly in the medieval age, and they don't have any reason to interfere. Even if they did it's probably just some money and mercenary.
Actually, Robert the Bruce did send his brother Edward to do just that, to the point where Edward was recognized by some Irish lords as "King of Ireland." In the end, though, all it did was bring chaos; Edward was killed and the invasion collapsed.
@@sassenspeyghel4155Well you’ve also got to consider why. Why would Denmark or Norway want to send men to fight and die in Scotland? France only supported us because they wanted England to be weaker
Yet again, the map on the thumbnail is historically incorrect. Wales’ unification with England didn’t just make Wales disappear or became a region of England! This is a constant misrepresentation of its annexation. The laws of Wales act clearly states that Welshman were giving equal rights as Englishmen under English law. Nowhere does it state that Wales no longer exists or is a region of England. When Afghanistan was controlled by America for 20 years, did it become an American state? No! Did Belgium? Netherlands? France? Under Germany!!! Crimea for example when it was annexed had never been a country!!! Whereas Wales was, and still is.
It’s really interesting how the world works. We was the overlords for centuries of the isles and we had kings who tried to dictate things to the Scottish. But in the end it was a Scottish king who United us. I’m proud to be British with my fellow Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish brothers. Our history is rich from fighting against each other to fighting side by side.
shut it, scots born in scotland voted to leave the UK in 2014. look at the demographics. You are NOT our brothers.
The intertwined histories of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are indeed fascinating, marked by both conflict and cooperation.
The Act of Union in 1707, which united England and Scotland under a single parliament, was a pivotal moment in this journey, laying the foundation for a more integrated political landscape.
Despite this shared political structure, each nation within the United Kingdom retains its distinct cultural identity, enriching the tapestry of British identity.
@@fatherofhistoryI saw a lot of this when I visited the British Islaes in 2016. I'm a New Yorker, but couldn't help but notice that the Welshmen I bumped into sounded a lot more like the New English than the actual English.
It was quite an adventure!
Me after 6:35 "WHY DID YOU SCOTS ONLY RELY ON MELEE WEAPONS THE CAN'T EVEN BE USED IN TIGHT QUARTERS....WHERE ARE YOUR ARCHERS? BAH!"
In the end, after driving out the English twice, Scotland voluntarily joined Britain.
Scotland did NOT 'join' Britain. When the Scottish and English parliaments merged Britain was created.
@@williamwallace5857 wasn't voluntarily though?
after we whiffed 1/5 of our total wealth on various colonial expeditions and went bankrupt and we united to clear our debt. @@williamwallace5857
@@theawesomeman9821 I'm no expert, but I thought it was James I that unified the Kingdoms of Scotland and England after becoming king of both after Elizabeth I died.
Umm, it was. The Scottish Parliament decided, despite the fact that the people didn't want it. But now, England would be in financial ruin (more so than now) without Scotland.@@theawesomeman9821
I’m early for more excellent content
Me thinking about Douglas & Fraser in one of the early battles…. “Outlander vibes”
Super wonderful introducing historical coverage episode about continuous clashing between Britain and Scotland besides French intervention....thank you (knowledgeia)channel for sharing
Clashing between Britain and Scotland? Scotland IS Britain. Britain wouldn’t be a thing without Scotland.
England with some welsh VS Scotland
If Scotland decided to abandon the Lowlands and stregthen the Antonine Walls, will it yielded good result to Scotland in the long run? I can see that is the case until the arrival of cannons and gunpowder. But Scotland most likely has access to such things too. So to besiege the Antonine Walls will be a long and hard venture for the English troops. Raids by seas, however, might yielded better results for England. So to defend itself, Scotland needed to stregthen the fortifications on its coasts as well.
They didn’t had this thought back then unfortunately. Nor to fortify these walls with pre-canon technology, artillery
No because that would've been giving up a ton of Scotlands arable land
why would they do that? they won independence with all territory in tact
If they abandoned the lowlands they'd just be a hodgepodge of feuding Gael clans, they were hardly on par with England as was, had they abandoned the lowlands to them then they'd have become nothing more than a kingdom of barbarous mountain savages in the eyes of the English.
Those 'lowlands' was also the Land of Robert the Bruce. He was the Lord of Annandale, which is right next to the boarder. The land right above the Solway. So if he gave up the lowlands he'd be giving up his land.
In some way, the english defeat in the first independance war was a blessing in disguise because they were forced to give up the use of heavy cavalry and focus more on longbowmen that give them countless victory in the 14th and 15th century with the second independance war (until neville's cross in 1346) and in the hundred years war (between 1346 and 1356 with Crecy and Poitiers and between 1415 and 1428 with Azincourt until Orleans)
Not 'countless'.
10:14 Just to note, Cumberland is not a city, it was a county…in England
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@@Alex-zs7gwand an amazing name
We forgot our winter jackets 🏴
I'm like "what's burrick?" 😅
And I'm like "Its Berwick, you dozy yank!"
Baltimore west Cork 1631
he should have put bailiol to the sword and not allowed leaving
i thought he know that its not wise to let enemies escape
That's not how politics works
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The irony is England is not an independent country today
It is English which is Independent & successful at wiping out languages
Could Scotland have held out? I really don’t see it, but I’m curious if anyone who has some more historical knowledge than me knows if they could’ve maybe had some hail Mary’s so to speak or something.
They did
Nope
@@billdehappy1 read a history book. Maybe one with pictures will do you
@@13141ScottLast time i checked, there wasn't a country on the world map called "Scotland".
see on britians flag and tell me that again morron @@13141Scott
Brexit haha
Next partition 2.0 in Britain 😂
@@doki1146I heard you still shit in the streets lol
What if Denmark conquered Canada
@@MickJonesHogSmacks what if Canada ? Now that's a question
"he wanted the war with the english" scots
"at the battle of" poirier
I dk why I had like a deja vu before knowing
Hey, since u make video about how Islam came to Indonesia, can you please make video 'bout the untold story how Islam & Christianity came to Indonesia? As an Indonesian, Islam didn't really come with trade especially to what happened with my ethnic groups, an indigenous ethnic group in the middle of Sumatran jungles and mountains. In 1539, Acehnese Sultanate invaded my ancestors's kingdom when our king refused Islam. Aceh lost the war then they bought & hired Ottoman weapons & soldiers to invade us. In the 1820s during Padri War, Padri soldiers massacred 200.000 people including our king for not accepting Islam, they brutally ransacked our villages/cities & massacred my ethnic groups who refused their religion. They were failed to conquer us when a cholera outbreak happened thanks to dead bodies that leaked cholera. After they failed to conquer us, our ancestors were devastated watching ransacked kingdoms and dead relatives even cholera outbreak happened and decimated our population. My ancestors became hostile towards outsiders/foreigners. A couple of US Baptist missionarists came and introduced Christianity. Too bad, the locals thought they were another hostile foreigners/outsiders and they caught & ate them. Before Christianity came, my people were pagans who had cannibalistic culture/rituals. My ancestors conducted cannibalism towards people who did terrible crimes such as rape, murder, or treason. POWs were also eaten back then. Before Christianity, my ancestors believed if we ate people, it'd grant us magical strength. A German guy introduced Christianity but people hated it coz it'd destroy our religion and culture including our cannibalistic rituals. Cannibalism was eventually banned when Dutch colonial regime imposed anti cannibalism law towards us in 1900s. If Christianity never came, perhaps my people would still do capital punishment in form of cannibalism. Kinda weird to see people telling that Islam came to here with trade and no war while forgetting their brutality towards an indigenous ethnic group in Sumatra
so islam was introduced by trade to sumatra, but not even the whole of sumatra. it definitly was spread using violence just like everywhere else. islamic people like to grasp at anything cause they can't seem to cope with their violent history(which has nothing to do with them) i presume you are from the molucca's or from sulawesi? dang you mention sumatra i thought it was hindu before islam came. The crazy thing for me as a dutch is that your government claims to be one u nified nation as to whwere it should've been broken up after colonial rule ended.
Woah there! Don't forget how peaceful that religion is!
@@vastpiano5552 Crusades? Christians commited violent invasions too, it doesn't affect the theology though. In Islam only defensive wars are supposed to be fought, rulers will use any justification they can for more power regardless of religion.
It's because Islam spread to the majority of the Malay Archipeligo through trade, sure some local rulers used it as an excuse to attack their neighbours but by and large most kingdoms inluding Aceh were introduced to the faith peacefully, your people were an exception.
All designed to make it look as though the British (Welsh) didn’t exist, or made to look as though the English are British.
The English have more Briton blood than they do German how are they not British?
I really want to watch more of your videos, guy, particularly topics like this that no-one else is covering, but your narrator makes it an ordeal with his mid-2000s corny History channel style (admittedly not as bad as he was in the last video I saw but still). Listen to the second sentence:
"But what are theories forrrrrrr but to be... DISPROVENNNNNN-UH." 'Why' is my first question. Why can't he speak normally?
3:26 "No-one-nuh was going to oppose them-ah. Thus, Balliol knewww... what he had to do-wah."
He sounds like Triple H: 'Tonight-ah! We're gonna realise-ah! A new champion holding the world title-ah!'
As for the battle of Dupplin Moor that you depicted 6 minutes in, the English/Balliol were outnumbered 15,000 to 1,500, as much as 26:1 according to some figures, yet you've depicted 6 units for the English and 8 for the Scots, indicating almost numerical parity. Again, why? Then you implied that the battle of Neville's Cross had parity when the English were outnumbered 2:1. Was this video financed by a Scot?
My guy, if you don't like the content then simply don't watch it...
@@Ronald98 As I said, dolt, I like the content, just not the deliberately, unnecessarily irritating narration.
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It's frustrating to know that after all the struggle the Scots had for their independence, they are now a province of the English. They hardly even speak their own native language anymore, which means they will lose their ethnic identity.
Both England and Scotland are run now by international finance.. so it's irrelevant
You have shown your level of education. You lot know fuck all🤣🤣😂
Umm. We have our own Parliament, distinct culture and traditions and an Independence movement that has dominated our political landscape for a decade.
We’re not worried our ethnicity is going anywhere 😂
@@987jof😅, true what the hell is he saying.
Wait until he sees who Scotlands first minister is 😂
The truth is it all comes down to what was the more valuable enterprise and allocation of time and resources. Scotland then was not seen as a prize as most of it is hills and mountains with some livable areas in the lowlands and by the coast, geographically and settlement wise its not changed much since the middle ages.
There simply wasn't the incentive to conquer the tribes there and eventually when the Scots failed expedition to South America bankrupted them, they came cap in hand to England as their population was starving.
The same to a degree can be said about Ireland, during the summer it's lovely but for most of the year its a wet bog ridden wind swept storm battered island off the mainland with no resources other than land to fight over and back in ye olde days they hand enough land and the land in France was seen as far more valuable and prestigious.
Similarly with the Welsh, the land just wasn't appealing enough to commit the resources, they did however build a lot of castle s to suppress the native tribes into submission which worked for a time.
Even to this day, Wales, N.Ireland and Scotland are all heavily subsidised by English taxes. Maybe one day they will find something locked away in those mountains but until that day they are considered not worth the effort.
Strange to see the Irish net taking this golden opportunity to take back their land.
Too busy fighting each other (Ireland was divided into multiple Kingdoms and tribes all out for themselves back then) plus it would be ill advise to get inbetween the lions. The whole idea of "Celtic solidarity" didn't even exist back then.
The only thing the Irishmen hated more than invaders was their fellow Irishmen.
Free Scotlandestine 😤
Scotlandistan nowadays 😂
It’s unfortunate how this name is meant to be a joke but is actually kind of true now
@@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN scotlandistan doesn't make sense if you understand the transliteration.
Stan means home of the in Persian. So this Is in literation the homeland of the Scots.
As Scotland or "Skezistan" in Lazic is home of the Scots and Scotland has 3 million inhabitants 90-95% of whom are Scots.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682
You’re missing the connotations associated with adding the “-estine” and “-stan” suffix then.
@@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN Persian for land of the.
Next partition 2.0 in Britain 😂
Partition 1.0 happened on 1947
God is Scottish
Scotland might be independent if fellow Scots hadn’t sold out. But now they should stay in the UK.
What I find interesting is how many Scottish people are not aware of their own history and are often very hypocritical about it. People claiming we beat the English when in most battles, as many Scots fought against the independence fighters and this trend has continued right to the modern day, Scots like to bleat about freedom and independence when just over half the country voted against it in the 2016 referendum.
I love Scotland, but the Scottish, not so much. (Speaking as a born and bred Scotsman)
Scotland isn't a real country!
Over 5 million people would say otherwise 😂
@@flembo8542 I think everybody in the UK would agree too
It’s a country within a country, the UK’s a bit weird.
Obvious bait is obvious
The United Kingdom consists of 4 separate nations, England, northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. So yes, Scotland is very much a country with its own laws, currency, justice system and parliament (the most powerful devolved parliament in the world)
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