text: This is your luck day, I studied mostly medieval history in college. Well, the movie is a great one, one of my favorites, but alas no. The battle of Sterling Bridge in 1297 had a bridge. The English were bottlenecked and the Scots were able to exploit this and kill many crossing the bridge but many English just drowned as they had on a decent amount of equipment and most people then didn't swim. I don't know the whole story in detail, but Robert the Bruce got a bad wrap in the movie, he is a national hero in Scotland. Also, Wallace was not some landed peasant, he was a Knight and was reasonable educated.