At Dupplin Moor on 11 August 1332 Edward Balliol's Disinherited army of around 2,000 defeated a Scottish host perhaps ten times larger. The English archers on the flanks channelled Scottish attackers into a densely packed killing ground, then longbow fire destroyed the compressed formations. The two wings of English archers worked in concert to enfilade the Scottish advance, a tactical model that anticipated Halidon Hill and pointed toward the systematic use of the longbow to defeat Scottish schiltron tactics.
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