Stirling Castle had been in English hands since the surrender of 1333. Andrew of Morays siege in 1336 was part of his systematic campaign to reduce English-held strongholds during the Scottish recovery. The castle proved too strong to take by assault but the sustained pressure denied the English its use as an offensive base. Scotlands gradual strangling of English-held castles across the country throughout the 1330s and 1340s was the strategic story of the Second War of Independence.
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