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Originally Posted by Sire-Chris
I'm afraid I'm going to have to burst your bubble here.
Wallace is a murderer. He killed people outside of battle, without provocation. Sir William Heselrig?
And I know england were "just as bad". That's my point. We were both guilty of the same thing so why are scotland never acknowledged as aggressors? Because we were more successful? The act of union was under a scottish king as well, but that's all our fault.
It's just always too one sided.
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While I agree with your basic premise that it's not really as simple as Scotland are the Good Guys and England are the Baddies, you have picked a bad example. It is by no means certain that Wallace killed Heselrig.
Historically, England made far more attempts to conquer Scotland than visa versa, and things like the sacking of Berwick (which is something that definately did happen) do not help the cause expressed in English protestations of innocence.