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英国民族32 - 英语听力

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[00:02.945]There's no doubt, of course, that Walla...
[00:02.945]There's no doubt, of course, that Wallace did count,
[00:05.948]that his brief but incredibly dramatic intervention in the wars between England and Scotland
[00:11.448]did change the course of British history,
[00:14.453]if only to show that the armies of Edward I were not invincible at all times and in all places.
[00:23.458]Beyond that, Wallace was one of the few Scots who never at any stage paid homage to Edward,
[00:29.706]remaining loyal to King John Balliol.
[00:33.708]More gentleman turned outlaw than peasant man of the glens,
[00:37.704]Wallace wasn't a one-man war either.
[00:41.706]By mid-1297, all Scotland was on the boil.
[00:45.707]North of the Forth, Andrew Murray matched or even surpassed him by leading a wild and brilliant guerrilla war.
[00:54.699]It was when Murray marched south and Wallace moved north to meet here,
[00:59.208]on the Forth at Stirling - the key to Scotland - that a chaotic wildfire uprising turned into a major military campaign.
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