After the main gate fell to English cavalry on 30 March 1296, house-by-house fighting erupted through the Flemish Quarter; the Red Hall garrison of Flemish merchants held out until the building was fired, marking the bloodiest phase of the assault. Edward I reportedly halted the massacre only at the approach of clergy. The street-level combat exemplified Edward's deliberate terror strategy to cow Scottish resistance before the formal campaign began.
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