My favourite English historic character

Name: Gutuie Florentin

Age: 15

Profesor coordinator: Neacsu Victor

Children’s Club, Calafat

When I think about the history of England , the only thing that first came up in my mind is the
story of William Wallace. I don’t know why exactly but I guess because his story resembles
with many of our historic characters in their journeys for freedom and justice.

There are many stories about his true identity .I prefer the one that a movie was made on it. And
I am going to tell you that story:

It begins in Scotland in the time of King LongFoot was conquering the England and was the
ruler of Scotland. The poor people of Scotland were killed by the English without a reasonable
reason …..one of them was the father of William Wallace and his brother…the last members of
his family. He is rase by his uncle who send him to schools and teach him the tactics of war. He
became a true man …..inteligent brave and with the attitude of a leader .

He return in his natal village and began to rebuilt his house and in a short wile he fall in love
with Eleanor the doughter of one of his parents friends. The were married in sicret because of the
barons rights … the one that say that after the wedding the broom has to give him his wife for a
night ….and share a beautifully love story . After a wille the English catch his wife and killed her
when he finds out about the murder he killed every English in the village and with the help of his
friends start up a rebellion against the king.

With his army growing he succeed in the fights against the English …. He is name Protector of
Scotland by the nobles who want him to stop the rebellion .He refuse to let the English take their
country he bag the nobles to join him in the campaign …but there was no use the nobles think
more about their properties and wrights not about the country.

Against the army of the king ,Wallace thought the nobles will come….but they didn’t they
betrayed him and let the English win and capture him.

They try to make him begging for mercy while torturate him but he didn’t his last words were
Freedom!

Then the ruler of the barons unite the others and with the help of the remaining army of Wallace
defeat the army of the king and proclaimed the freedom of Scotland.

Wallace inspired his men he gave them hope and will …and they aceved their goal.

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If I think about him his story is almost the same with our Vlad the Impaler the ruler of Wallachia.

There are many stories about him for us was a great ruler who fought against the Turks in many
battles …. He made up to the throne in 1456 with the help of the Turks.

In 1459 Vlad refuse to play tribute to the Turks and a year later he unmasked the plans of Hamza
to capture him and devastated the Turks teritoryes from the south of Danube in the winter of
1461-1462.

In the spring of 1462 Mahomed the II-nd enter in Walachia to punishe Vlad but he falles.

Vlad is betrayed by the nobles and force to hide in Tranylvania. Here he is thrown in prison.

In 1476 he is freed but soon he is assassinated by the nobles.

We see the same fate of our hero as William he fight for freedom for the weaklings , for justice .

Of course there is the story of Dracula.

It is said that one day Vlad went in a battle against the warring Turks . His wife finds out that he
was killed in the battlefield and is horrifying by the news . She decide to kill herself and jump
from the coast in the river Arges.

On the other hand Vlad wasn’t actually dead , he return home and he found out that his wife’s
dead he become mad and decide to revenge her on God . In the church where his wife was lieing
dead he stabs a crucifix and from that thing become to flow blood ….he drinks hat and become
what we know as Dracula the blood thirsted vampire of Transylvania. In hi reign of terror and
cruelty everyone was afraid of him and his appetite but years have past and his wife has finally
return among the living in another body and another name.

Vlad find out about this and he was again in love but she was married , and his fiancé manage
somehow to kill the mighty beast.

His end in anyways is tragic thou he ends up stabbed in the heart by his reincarnated wife
Mina’s fiancé or decapitated by the Turks he has the same fate . His dark story isn’t that
horrifying if you see it clearly it is like a fairy tale but with some violence in it told to grown up
sons at the age of fifteen I think so is not that scare.

I think this is not fair Vlad was a cruel man he tried to intimidate his enemies but he was not a
monster . He scared so much the turks that they cut his head off. To William the English cut his
body apart and they put his body parts on the gates of London so everyone should remember that
they can-t rebelled against the king. So who were the monsters I think the Turks and English not
William or Vlad .

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They were true leaders with brave hearts and we have to respect theirs courage cause they are the
ones who made us warriors , they gave us hope in the dark times and hope but most of all the
gave us courage and a purpose in life.

They made us legends amount them and I think this is the most powerful feeling in life when you
fight for your country knowing that if you die you will not die in vain.

Read their story and you will see what I am trying to say. You will see how nobbles they were
how brave and intelligent but most of all you will see their honor revealed by every single deeds
in their life time.

I love history and among others characters from our history and universal history their stories
impressed me the most.

Every man has his destiny in the world …it may be a hard one or a easy one to accomplished
their was a hard one. They carried on their shoulders the destines of a nation at an impasse in
history and they choose to change their fates once and for all.