After Stirling Bridge, Wallace led his army south in autumn 1297, ravaging northern England for several weeks. Chronicles record the burning of settlements across Northumberland and County Durham. The raid demonstrated that with English attention southward, the Scottish border was virtually undefended. It foreshadowed the systematic large-scale raids of the Bruce era that would follow over the next two decades.
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