The Scottish Guardians — John Comyn and Robert Bruce, operating in an uneasy partnership — besieged and recovered Stirling Castle from the English in 1299. The recovery was significant because Stirling controlled the gateway between Highland and Lowland Scotland. Edward I would have to recapture it in his great 1304 campaign, culminating in the Warwolf siege. The repeated changes of possession at Stirling illustrated its strategic centrality to the whole conflict.
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