James Douglas — who would become the most feared border raider of his age — made his name in a series of devastating raids through the English-occupied Border counties. His ferocity was legendary: at his own family castle of Douglas he killed the English garrison and burned the castle rather than let it be used against Scotland. The English called him the Black Douglas; the Scots knew him as the Good Sir James. His raids pre-Bannockburn kept the whole of the Borders in turmoil.
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