Do we torture an not retribute or is it the other way around? Kinda spliting hairs are you not?
Torture is just the opening act, the retribution comes after. I kind of like that one the Brits did to William Wallace
Wallace evaded capture by the English until 5 August 1305 when
John de Menteith, a Scottish knight loyal to Edward, turned Wallace over to English soldiers at
Robroyston near
Glasgow. Letters of
safe conduct from
Haakon V of Norway,
Philip IV of France, and
John Balliol, along with other documents, were found on Wallace and delivered to Edward by John de Segrave.
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Wallace was transported to London, lodged in the house of William de Leyrer, then taken to
Westminster Hall, where he was tried for treason and for atrocities against civilians in war, "sparing neither age nor sex, monk nor nun."
[24][25] He was crowned with a garland of oak to suggest he was the king of
outlaws. He responded to the treason charge, "I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject." With this, Wallace asserted that the absent
John Balliol was officially his king.[
citation needed]
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Plaque marking the place of Wallace's execution.
Following the trial, on 23 August 1305, Wallace was taken from the hall to the
Tower of London, then stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at
Smithfield.
[26] He was
hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by
hanging, but released while he was still alive,
emasculated,
eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him,
beheaded, then cut into four parts. His preserved head (dipped in tar) was placed on a pike atop
London Bridge. It was later joined by the heads of the brothers, John and
Simon Fraser. His limbs were displayed, separately, in
Newcastle upon Tyne,
Berwick-upon-Tweed,
Stirling, and
Perth. A plaque stands in a wall of
St. Bartholomew's Hospital near the site of Wallace's execution at Smithfield.
In 1869 the
Wallace Monument was erected, very close to the site of his victory at Stirling Bridge. The
Wallace Sword, which supposedly belonged to Wallace, although some parts were made at least 160 years later, was held for many years in
Dumbarton Castle and is now in the Wallace Monument.
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