During Hertford's 1544 raid, English forces briefly established outposts in the Scottish Borders as a demonstration of territorial control. Lauder, on the main road from England to Edinburgh, was a key position. The inability to maintain such garrisons without a large army in the field demonstrated the fundamental strategic problem of the Rough Wooing — England could devastate Scotland but not occupy and hold it.
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