Inverness Castle was the key to English control of northern Scotland. Andrew Murrays capture of it in 1297 was one of the most significant individual actions of the early Wars of Independence, effectively ending English military power north of the Forth before Stirling Bridge. The castles fall was part of Murrays systematic clearing of English garrisons across Moray, Ross, and the Black Isle. Murray demonstrated that the English conquest of Scotland was far less secure than it appeared.
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