In May 1297 William Wallace led a night attack on the English sheriff William de Haselrig at Lanark and killed him in his own house. The killing, possibly motivated partly by Haselrig having executed Wallace's companion Marion Braidfute, transformed Wallace from an outlaw into a resistance leader. It was the decisive personal act that crystallised the 1297 rising and gave Wallace a following across Clydesdale and Selkirk forest.
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