Following the Battle of Stirling Bridge, Wallace and Murray led their army into Northumberland in a systematic raid lasting weeks. Settlements from the Tweed to the Tyne were burned, livestock driven off, and the population terrorized or ransomed. The English response was ineffective. The raids demonstrated that Scottish military capability had recovered sufficiently to take the offensive deep into English territory.
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