In the years after Culblean and through the early 1340s, Scottish resistance forces systematically recovered English-held castles across Lothian and southern Scotland. Operations included Edinburgh Castle taken by William Douglas in 1341 through a supply-cart ruse, and the subsequent recovery of other fortifications. These operations collectively dismantled the English castle network that had maintained English influence in the south since Halidon Hill, preparing the ground for David II's return from France.
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