The document summarizes the long-running battles between Scotland and England over land that lasted hundreds of years. It details some of the major events, including William Wallace's defeat of the Sheriff of Lanark and later execution, and the battles between the countries that lasted until the Treaty of Northampton in 1328. The document also describes the 1999 book "Scotland's First War of Independence" which covers this period of conflict between when King Alexander III died and Robert the Bruce's uprising, portraying Scotland's fight to regain territory from England.