The English fort at Dunglass on the Berwickshire coast was a key link in the coastal supply chain from Berwick to the English garrison at Haddington. In 1548 Scottish and French forces bombarded Dunglass in an attempt to sever English supply lines. A powder magazine explosion — possibly deliberate, possibly accidental — killed large numbers of the English garrison and caused the loss of the fort. The explosion was one of the most dramatic single events of the Rough Wooing and fatally disrupted English logistics.
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