Edward I's capture and sack of Berwick opened the Scottish Wars of Independence with deliberate atrocity. The prosperous trading town was the richest in Scotland. After a brief resistance, Edward's forces massacred thousands of inhabitants — the garrison, citizens, and Flemish merchants who had barricaded themselves in the Red Hall were burned alive inside it. Edward personally called off the killing. The act of calculated terror provoked exactly the resistance it was meant to prevent.
c.7,000–15,000 killed (sources highly variable)
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