Wallace was killed using one of the most brutal punishments in the medieval era: he was to be hung, drawn, and quartered. To warn others away from rebellion, Wallace's head was dipped in tar and placed on a pike on London Bridge. His four limbs were sent to be displayed in Newcastle, Berwick, Stirling, and Perth. The person associated with the name "Braveheart" in real life was William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led an uprising against English rule during the First War of Scott

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