Old Stirling Bridge

Even in really poor light, on quite a grubby day, it's beautiful.

This is the site of the Battle of Stirling Bridge, where in 1297, a Scottish army led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeated Edward I’s army under the command of John de Warenne and Hugh de Cressingham. The English army had between 200 to 300 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers to the Scots' 36 horsemen and 8000 foot.
They lost because they made the fundamental error of sending a smaller and therefore defeatable portion of their force across the bridge. After the defeat, the English still on the other side of the river burnt the bridge - it was a wooden one at the time - in order to get away before the Scots could follow.