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Good thinking! Your knowledge of the area is an asset. Your men are encouraged by your confidence. The army advances but their numbers are restricted by the narrow bridge over the river Forth. You deploy a tight group or 'schiltrom' armed with spears. This formation is strong and takes down many English mounted knights who struggle in the boggy ground. To increase the English confusion, you deploy a strong force of mounted knights to defeat the archers.

In the chaos witnessed over the river, the remaining English army turn and flee. It is a death trap!

You have a cunning plan...

Congratulations! Your clever tactics have successfully defeated a much larger and stronger army. This is an amazing victory which will be remembered for generations to come.

You gave your army confidence by stirring their feelings of patriotism. Carrying the relics of Saint Columba and brandishing the saltire of Saint Andrew, you inspired them with symbols of the emerging Scottish identity.

The time for Scottish independence has come!

Symbol of Scottish victory. The Bute Mazer, with Robert the Bruce depicted as a lion, surrounded by the shields of his supporters.

Symbol of the Scottish identity. The Monymusk Reliquary, believed to have held a relic of St Columba and possibly carried at the Battle of Bannockburn.