Excerpt from Bannockburn

The legend of an army of men, devotedly believed for many centuries, is now dead but it died only a very short time ago. It is therefore wrong to sneer at those who rewrite certain portions of history in the light of recent investigation, for the very effort to rewrite is stimulating. We now know far more of Nelson than we did in the centenary year of Trafalgar, for the blue book published last year shows that the men who rebelled in 1905 against the accepted account of his tactics were on the right lines. Mr Mackenzie has done similar good work in rewriting the tale of Bannock burn. Whether fought on the upland or fought on the plain the battle had a mighty result, and we are stimulated and cannot but profit when we go into details to decide for ourselves where it was fought.

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