As You Like It--Act 1, Scene 3

Celia is teasing Rosalind about Orlando when the Duke comes in and orders Rosalind to leave on pain of death. She was astonished, but there was no choice but to obey. Celia decided to go with her, though her father forbid her to follow Rosalind. They decided that Rosalind, the taller one, would dress as a man and take the name of Ganymede, while Celia would dress as a poor girl under the name of Aliena.

Here the scene ends.
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As You Like It---Act 1, Scene 2

Rosalind is sad because her father has been deposed of his dukedom and sent away. She is still at court with Cecilia, the daughter of the present duke. They are watching the wrestling, and they are very surprised when they see Orlando come to wrestle Charles. Everyone tries to persuade Orlando against wrestling, but he insists and wins. Rosalind has fallen in love with him, and Orlando with her.

The scene ends here.
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As You Like It---Act 1, Scene 1

Orlando is not happy. His oldest brother, Oliver, is supposed to be taking care of him and Jaques but is only sending Jaques to school and is keeping all but food and clothing from Orlando. Orlando is rightly angry at this treatment and faces his brother. Oliver won't agree, and is very rude to him.
Oliver is visited by the Duke's champion wrestler, with the news that Orlando is going to try to beat him in the next contest with a disguise. Oliver is pleased, because he wants to kill Orlando, the youngest of the three brothers, but he hides this from Charles and pretends that he has Orlando's good at heart but that Orlando won't listen to his pleas to not go and try his strength.

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In Freedom's Cause

Archie captured the castle with little resistance. Douglas captured another castle which made Randolph anxious to capture one as well. Archie and Randolph also bagged one by climbing a wall that was supposedly impossible to climb. (This was repeated many years later by the British to capture a French castle.)
Now almost all of the castles were in the hands of the Scottish. England was stricken by civil war, and her king was rather bad at the time. Finally Edward the 2nd decided to crush Scotland once and for all. He sent a huge army to invade Scotland. They met at a place by Bannock's burn, hence the name Bannockburn for this battle. Bruce formed his men in ranks four deep, so that they were all engaged at once. The English had too many men to all fight at once, so they were unable to use their strength to the best advantage. The English archers weren't able to shoot or they would hit more of their own men than the Scottish. They tried what had proved disastrous to the Scottish before: going around their flank and shooting from at their side. This time, however, the Scottish cavalry were not commanded by traitors. They chased the archers off and the Scottish archers took the field.

The Scottish won the Battle of Bannockburn.
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In Freedom's Cause

Archie was now free. He was very glad that he had chosen Mary Kerr as his wife. She was a true Scotchwoman and had now saved him several times.
The fighting continued, and the resistance of the Scotch was still strong. They captured more and more castles, with just mere handfuls of men. Some determined men who were not even in Bruce's army captured a castle by surprise.
Archie set out to capture a castle that was very difficult to take by surprise. The drawbridge was only lowered twice a day and then it was carefully watched. Archie decided to dress some of his men as fishermen, arrange with the villagers to hide the rest, and pretend to be selling fish because he had been driven into the harbor by the storm.
The chapter ends before he puts his plan into action.

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