Years after Wallace's death, Robert the Bruce, now Scotland's king, leads a Scottish army before a ceremonial line of English troops on the fields of Bannockburn where he is to formally accept English rule.

The Battle of Stirling Bridge is depicted in the 1995 film Braveheart, but it bears little resemblance to the real battle, there being no bridge ( due mainly to the difficulty of filming around the bridge itself ) and tactics resembling the Battle of Bannockburn.

The following battle, the Battle of Bannockburn, is considered by contemporary scholars to be the worst defeat sustained by the English since the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

There is some confusion over the exact site of the Battle of Bannockburn, although most modern historians agree that the traditional site, where a visitor centre and statue have been erected, is not the correct one.

The National Trust for Scotland operates the Bannockburn Heritage Centre, which is open daily from March through October.

Fragmentary remains of a probably " ptilinopine " Early Miocene pigeon were found in the Bannockburn Formation of New Zealand and described as Rupephaps ; " Columba " prattae from roughly contemporary deposits of Florida is nowadays tentatively separated in Arenicolumba, but its distinctness from Patagioenas needs to be more firmly established.

The site of this battle lies in the area known in later Welsh sources as Bannawg, the name Bannockburn is presumed to be related, which is thought to have meant the very extensive marshes and bogs between Loch Lomond and the river Forth, and the hills and lochs to the north, which separated the lands of the Britons from those of Dál Riata and the Picts, and this land was not worth fighting over.

The later fate of this crown is not entirely clear, but it may have been returned to Scotland during the negotiations between Robert I of Scotland and Edward II of England ( following the English defeat at Bannockburn in 1314 ) or perhaps was returned to Scotland for use in the coronation of Edward Balliol when he was installed as king of Scots by England in 1332.

Lincolnshire shares its eastern border with the village of Bannockburn at Interstate 94 when it is considered a portion the Tri-State Tollway.

Its central episode is the Battle of Bannockburn.

It is possible, though, that the army was at least as strong as that which had fought at Bannockburn, perhaps even stronger.

The Clan Menzies still owns a remnant of a set of bagpipes said to have been carried at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, though the veracity of this claim is debated.

Bannockburn ( Scottish Gaelic Allt a ' Bhonnaich ) is a village immediately south of the city of Stirling in Scotland.

It is served by Bannockburn Primary School, in the centre of the community, and Bannockburn High School in nearby Broomridge.

Bannockburn is served by the 38, 54, 54A, 60 and 56 bus services.

The offensive use of the schiltron is a tactical development credited to Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.

The term schiltron is also used by Barbour to describe English infantry at Bannockburn.

There is, in addition, a tradition that the order was instituted, or re-instituted, on the battlefield by Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.

The clan asserts that Stout Duncan's relatives and followers ( not yet known as Robertsons ) supported Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 ( although this patriotic story is not supported by contemporary documentation ).

Selkirk men fought with William Wallace at Stirling Brig and Falkirk, and also with Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn, but it is Selkirk's connection with The Battle of Flodden in 1513, her response to the call of the King, the brave bearing of her representatives on the fatal field, and the tragic return of the sole survivor, provide the Royal Burgh with its proudest and most maudlin memories, it being the celebration of a five hundred year old defeat.

It is based on the 18th century tale that some Templars escaped the suppression of their order by fleeing to Scotland during the reign of Robert the Bruce and fought in the Battle of Bannockburn.

It is an amalgamation of parts or wholes of the former municipalities of the Shire of Barrabool, Shire of Bannockburn, Shire of Bellarine, Shire of Corio, City of Geelong, City of Geelong West, City of Newtown, and City of South Barwon that was created in 1993.

Bannockburn used to have a railway station located next to the site of the bus depot, but residents wishing to use the train must nowadays travel into the centre of Stirling.

From this time the centre of commercial activity came to be at the top of the hill around the Pacific Highway and Bannockburn Road area, but with the railway station being located by necessity at the bottom of the hill development began to shift towards the new railway station at the foot of the hill.

* Bannockburn Oval, located in Bannockburn Rd, is a large sports field catering to athletics, cricket, soccer, rugby and other sporting activities.

Princes Street shops are located in East Turramurra, on the corner of Princes Street and Bannockburn Road, near to Pymble Public School.

Depots were located in Larbert, Bannockburn, Linlithgow, Balfron and Oban.

There was one final widening project that was worked on in 2005, this time located mostly in Bannockburn.

Statues of the Bruce also stand on the battleground at Bannockburn, outside Stirling Castle and Marischal College in Aberdeen.

He was shown on the obverse crowned in battle dress, surrounded by thistles, and on the reverse in full battle armour in a scene from the Battle of Bannockburn.

Many of the Scottish men-at-arms ( recruited from the nobility and the more prosperous burgesses ) served on foot at Bannockburn.

The Bannockburn, over which the English army had to cross on the way to Stirling, and its sister streams flowed over the Carse of Stirling.

It was on the old road that the preliminary actions of the Battle of Bannockburn took place on Sunday, 23 June.

The captives included Sir Thomas Gray, whose son and namesake later based his account of the Battle of Bannockburn in his book, the Scalacronica, on his father's memories.

Persistent legends, based on the highly coloured and unreliable accounts of 16th-century chroniclers such as Adam Abell, Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, John Leslie and George Buchanan, claim that James III was assassinated at Milltown, near Bannockburn, soon after the battle.

This led to the Battle of Bannockburn on 23 – 24 June 1314, where he commanded a Scottish schiltrom.

Several new private housing schemes have been built in and around Bannockburn since the 1990s, increasing pressure on the already-overcrowded high school.

There are two recorded Scottish instances of circular schiltrons: William Wallace's army at Falkirk ( 1298 ), and Thomas Randolph's forces on the first day of Bannockburn ( 1314 ).

William, the 4th Earl of Ross, was present with his clan at the Battle of Bannockburn ( 1314 ), and almost a century later ( 1412 ) the castle of Dingwall, the chief seat on the mainland of Donald, Lord of the Isles, was captured after the disastrous fight at Harlaw in Aberdeenshire, which Donald had provoked when his claim to the earldom was rejected.

Warwick and Lancaster refused to participate in the campaign, which ended in a humiliating English defeat at the Battle of Bannockburn on 24 June.

* Bruce Crawford MSP Bannockburn SNP website details on Bruce Crawford

Some Medieval specialists elaborated on the idea of an infantry revolution happening early in the 14th century, when in some relevant battles, like Courtrai, Bannockburn or Halmyros heavy cavalry was routed by infantry ; however, it can be pointed out that in all those battles infantry was entrenched or positioned in rough terrain unsuited for cavalry, like in other battles of the 14th and 15th century in which cavalry was defeated.

After the Battle of Bannockburn, Patrick de Dunbar gave sanctuary and quarter to the English King Edward II at the fortress of Dunbar Castle, on the east coast of Scotland between Edinburgh and Berwick-upon-Tweed, and managed to effect the king's escape by means of a fishing boat whereby that monarch was transported back to England.

* Bannockburn article ( National Trust for Scotland ) contains some information on Marjorie Bruce.