Not at all. That is where most invaders screw up. Do not depend on the "local elites" exterminate them and give the peasantry a better deal. Why would the clans leave anyway?
Please, Britain didn't exist at the time and Scotland was fighting on the French side....
Far too late. This actually happened when Elizabeth Tudor snuffed it. The throne of England was offered to the nearest contender (Jamie Saxt) as there was bad weather in the Channel. The daft bastard actually took it...
Quick and dirty answer - no. The spearhead of the Heer was the tanks which were over-extended, needing urgent maintenance and resupply. OK. they could get fuel from civilian establishments without paying, but where did they get the replacement tracks, engine parts or ammunition?
Dunkirk wasn't...
Only Triple points :eek::eek:? Come on be sensible - in the whole of Scotland there is only ONE Tory MP and that's been the case since way back in the last century...
All the PODs in the poll are far too late. You'd probably need to consider butterflying the Conquest of Wales and Longshanks adventures in Scotland. Somehow come up with a Scottish /Welsh /Irish alliance - not forgetting the Northern English Barons (such as Percy or Dacre) who were appreciative...
I wasn't romanticising, I was going on results. Between 1297 (Stirling Bridge) and the Treaty of Northampton (1328), there were something like 20 battles between Scotland and England. England won at Falkirk, Hepperew, Stirling and Methven. They lost the rest, hence my use of the word frequently.
I'd love to, but I can't remember where I read it, it could have been Lanercost, Walter of Guisborough (why can't the English spell "burgh" properly?) or the Scotichronichon. I have seen replicas in various museums.
Minor nitpick here - it's not Skelkirk, it's Selkirk.
Only an idiot would...
They already had longbows in Scotland at the time (as they did in Ireland and and England). The Welsh innovation was the use of massed archers as a sort of area denial weapon.
Not pikes - the schiltroms were armed with heavy 7 or 8 foot battle spears and short swords, axes and long daggers...
I can't see it happening. In this scenario Wallace is nothing more than minor landholder. He has no pretensions to gentility, far less nobility. English commanders of the time almost had to be from the nobility (they could be from the gentility if they were in church orders).
But a minor...
Could very well be - except I don't think we ever saw many togas in Caledonia :).
Now, just for the tourists here, this is demonstration of how to put on the Great kilt. It's filmed in the Great Hall at Edinburgh Castle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBbg953p_Og&feature=related
Oh hell no. Never. No bloody way. That is the Feile beag or "Little kilt" and believe it or not it was invented by the British army as a cost-cutting exercise. Most people who comment on the origins of the modern kilt blame it on Thomas Rowlandson (an inronfounder in Glenmoriston in the 1730s)...
Not to rain too much on your parade, but the clan system couldn't survive. While it disintegrated faster after Culloden, it's final death was the Clearances - which for the most part were carried out by clan chiefs. Scotland actually had a small colonial empire before the idiocy of the Darien...
Actually it wouldn't. They could keep England. Scotland and France were military allies at the time.
You'd have to butterfly the Auld Alliance - not easy then and still a bit dicey now (Scots as a whole don't understand the "1000 years of annoying the French" thing.......:confused: