During Bruce's great raid of 1322, when the Scottish army penetrated as far south as Preston in Lancashire, the English garrison of Carlisle was placed on maximum alert and the city prepared for potential siege. Carlisle had been besieged by Bruce in 1315 and 1316 without success, and the threat from the 1322 raid prompted emergency defensive measures. The city's walls were manned and supplies stockpiled while Bruce's army swept south and then returned northward through western England, largely bypassing Carlisle's strong defences.
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