After the catastrophe at Falkirk, Wallace showed his strategic intelligence by denying Edward I the fruits of his victory. Stirling and Perth were burned before the English could occupy them. The retreating Scottish army left a scorched earth north of the Forth. Edward I advanced to Stirling but found it destroyed and could not sustain his campaign further north. Supply shortages and the approach of winter forced him to withdraw. The scorched-earth retreat preserved Scottish military capacity for the guerrilla phase that followed.
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