August 11, 1332 · Perthshire Theater
August 11, 1332
Opening the Second War of Independence, Edward Balliol and a small army of 'Disinherited' English-backed nobles landed in Fife and were attacked by a far larger Scottish host. Beaumont packed his dismounted men-at-arms between wings of longbowmen; the massed Scottish spearmen crushed together in the narrow valley until men suffocated in the press and were shot down in heaps taller than a spear.
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