kildean

Updated: August 18, 2026

Only one Chief, in the face of those armies, stood by Wallace, who, with a force of forty thousand men, awaited the invaders at a place on the river Forth, within two miles of Stirling. Across the river there was only one poor wooden bridge, called the bridge of Kildean so narrow, that but two men could cross it abreast.

Charles Dickens - A Child's History of England