Henry IV's 1400 invasion of Scotland was a fiasco. He marched an army to Edinburgh but the Scots simply retreated before him, burning crops and driving off livestock. The English army found nothing to eat in a deliberately devastated countryside and was forced to retreat. The campaign demonstrated that the traditional Scottish strategy of avoiding pitched battle and using scorched earth against an English invader remained as effective as it had been against Edward I a century earlier.
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