Berwick was the prize Wallace sought most urgently after Stirling Bridge. Its walls — reinforced by Edward I after the 1296 massacre — were too strong for assault without siege engines Wallace did not possess. The English garrison held out. Berwicks failure to fall meant that Scotland retained a powerful English military and commercial centre deep within its territory. It would not fall to Scotland until Bruces night seizure in 1318. Wallaces inability to take Berwick foreshadowed the limits of his resources.
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