The tit-for-tat raiding of 1448–1449 between the Douglas-led Scottish West March and the Percy-led English West March was a classic example of border escalation. What began as a Douglas raid into Cumberland provoked an English retaliation into Annandale, which provoked the Scottish invasion that became the Battle of Sark. The pattern — raid, counter-raid, pitched battle — was repeated many times across border history.
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