The raids of the 1370s under the first Earl of Douglas were part of a sustained Scottish pressure on Northumberland that led eventually to the great campaigns of the 1380s culminating in Otterburn. Douglas targeted Percy estates deliberately — the rivalry between the Douglas and Percy families was as much personal as national and drove much of the border warfare of this period. The personal animosity between the two great border families added an extra dimension of ferocity to the fighting.
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