After Hertford (now Protector Somerset) garrisoned Haddington following Pinkie, the town became the pivot of the Rough Wooing's final phase. A combined Franco-Scottish army besieged the English garrison. The siege lasted eighteen months and cost enormous lives on both sides — disease killed more than the fighting. The French presence led directly to the Treaty of Boulogne in 1550, ending the war, and to the sending of the young Mary Queen of Scots to France.
Thousands on both sides; disease particularly devastating
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