premise: The Wallace mentions people that never existed.
hypothesis: Appletons ' Cyclopædia of American Biography is a six-volume collection of biographies of notable people involved in the history of the New World . The Wallace (poem) . As the title suggests , it commemorates and eulogises the life and actions of the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace who lived a century and a half earlier . The poem is historically inaccurate , and mentions several events that never happened .