"hasugar" is wrong re. Stirling Bridge (tho' not as wrong as Mel, since the Bridge isn't even in the film (and the tactics seem more reminiscent of Bannocks Burn). Wallace and his soldiers were lying hidden,on the high ground about a mile from the fairly narrow bridge (capable of allowing mounted knights to pass over only two abreast), watching the English army cross. At the appropriate moment - that is, once there had crossed a proportion of the enemy which the Scots outnumbered - the Scots army raced forwards in a number of "battles" or divisions, some of them to hold the end of the bridge and thus prevent the remainder of the English army crossing, the others to set about those who had already crossed. This was a brilliant use of surprise to achieve "local superiority", which Napoleon himself might have admired.

Incidentally, I thought Gibson missed one major chance to emphasise the theme of how the Scots nobles were out for themselves rather than for any patriotic end; notice how they are all dressed in leather harness (medieval "Mad Max" biker-gear?) rather than the heraldic tabards &c sported by the English. Wouldn't it have made a strong visual point of this "class" element (okay, the term's a bit anachronistic) had there been a stronger visual similarity between these nobles and the English nobles? After all, the Bruces were "as rich in English lands as in Scottish", to quote the ould leper.