Scottish forces burned the suburban areas outside the walls of Berwick in 1312, part of the sustained pressure Bruce applied to the strategic border town while lacking the siege train to assault the walls directly. The burning of the suburbs denied the English garrison pasture and agricultural resources, tightened the economic grip on the town, and demonstrated Scottish control of the surrounding countryside while the English were confined to the fortified enceinte.
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