Alhadra Digital

By Juan Antonio Heredia Rúiz  (4º ESO-B)

The men whom English King Edward the First (1239-1307) appointed to govern the Scots ruled unwisely and nearly all the people were discontented.

 Suddenly an army of Scots was raised. It was led by Sir William Wallace (Uilleam Uallas), a knight who was almost a giant in size. William Wallace’s men drove the English out of the country and Wallace was made the “Guardian of the Realm.”

 King Edward then led a great army against him at the Battle of Falkirk (1298). The Scottish soldiers were nearly all on foot. Wallace arranged them in hollow squares, spearmen on the outside, bowmen within. The English horsemen dashed vainly against the walls of spear-points. But King Edward now brought his archers to the front. Thousands of arrows flew from their bows and thousands of William Wallace’s men fell dead. The spears were broken and the Scots were defeated.

Wallace barely escaped with his life. He was afterwards betrayed to King Edward, who cruelly put him to death. He was hung, drawn and quartered in Smithfield, London.

By  Miguel Ángel López Segura   (4º ESO-B )

Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel also known as the “Desert Fox” was the most famous German Field Marshal of World War II. He was born on 15 November 1891. He was the commander of the Deutsches Afrikakorps and afterwards in command of the German forces opposing the Allied cross-channel invasion at Normandy.

An enduring legacy of Rommel’s character is that he is also considered to be a humane military officer in contrast with many other figures of Nazi Germany.

His famous Afrikakorps was not accused of war crimes.

During World War I, Rommel fight in France, Romania and Italy.

Furthermore, orders to kill captured Jewish soldiers and civilians out of hand in all theatres of his command were defiantly ignored. Following the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa, and while commanding the defence of Occupied France, his fortunes changed when he was suspected of involvement in the failed July 20 Plot of 1944 to kill Hitler and was forced to commit suicide.

He is the only member of the Third Reich establishment to have a museum dedicated to him.