The Battle of Bannockburn

Yesterday Bek and I watched the Battle of Bannockburn (it was only a reenactment). The battle was between the Scottish army of Robert the Bruce and the English army of Edward II.
The Scots won (again), spurred on by the home crowd support. Some English spectators had made the journey to see the battle, but their cheers were drowned out by those of the locals.

There was a micophoned commentator at the battle who at one point asked whether any spectators had come from different loations to watch the battle. He asked if people had come from Bannockburn, Stirling, Glasgow, England, Germany, France, etc, and each group shouted out when they were called. We didn't admit to having come from America and felt we didn't need to yell out since Australia wasn't mentioned. This may have been a good thing because the two guys that admitted coming from France received a lot of flak, even though French soldiers had apparently fought on both sides.

Some of the participants of the battle seemed to have trouble with the dying part. Many blows that looked deadly had no effect, and many a soldier who fell, rose again. They must have only been "flesh wounds".