<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Scottish_War_of_Independence" id="mwSQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First Scottish War of Independence">First Scottish War of Independence</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Menteith" id="mwSg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John de Menteith">Sir John Stewart of Menteith</a>, the pro-English Sheriff of Dumbarton, successfully manages to capture <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace" id="mwSw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Wallace">Sir William Wallace of Scotland</a>, leading to Wallace's subsequent execution by hanging, evisceration, drawing and quartering, and beheading 18 days later.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_5#cite_note-2" id="mwTA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwTQ">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt17" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFPeter_Traquair1998">Peter Traquair (1998). <a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/freedomssword00pete/page/122/mode/2up" id="mwB5I" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB5M">Freedom's Sword</i></a>. Robert Rinehart Publishers. pp.<span id="mwB5Q" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>123–124. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB5U" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB5Y" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9781570982477" id="mwB5c" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9781570982477"><bdi id="mwB5g">9781570982477</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt17" class="Z3988" id="mwB5k" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Freedom%27s+Sword&amp;rft.pages=123-124&amp;rft.pub=Robert+Rinehart+Publishers&amp;rft.date=1998&amp;rft.isbn=9781570982477&amp;rft.au=Peter+Traquair&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ffreedomssword00pete%2Fpage%2F122%2Fmode%2F2up&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+5"></span></span>