The Lang Siege of Edinburgh Castle ended after the Regent Morton secured English military assistance — cannon and experienced soldiers from Elizabeth I. The English artillery battered the castle into submission within weeks. Kirkcaldy of Grange — one of the finest soldiers in Scotland — was hanged. The fall of Edinburgh Castle ended the last organised Marian resistance in Scotland and consolidated Protestant government. Elizabeth I's intervention settled Scottish politics for a generation.
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