After Pinkie the English fortified Haddington as their main base in Lothian. The Scots and their French allies besieged it continuously from 1548. France sent 6,000 troops under Desse in June 1548 and the combined Franco-Scottish force maintained the siege for over a year. English relief expeditions repeatedly fought through to the garrison. The siege was the central military event of the Rough Wooing's later phase and was bought at enormous cost on all sides. The Treaty of Boulogne in 1550 ended the English occupation.
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