The English fortified Haddington as the main base for the Rough Wooing and held it for eighteen months under siege by combined Scottish and French forces. The town was devastated by the fighting. The Treaty of Boulogne in 1550 ended the war and the English withdrew. The Haddington siege was the centrepiece of the Rough Wooing's final phase.
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