While Wallace raised the south, Andrew Murray simultaneously led a northern revolt based in Moray from May 1297 onward, capturing Inverness, Urquhart and other English-held castles. Murray's revolt drew upon the tradition of northern independence and the networks of Moray lordship. His rapid series of castle captures in the north deprived England of military control of Scotland north of the Forth weeks before Stirling Bridge, making the 1297 rising a coordinated national effort rather than a purely southern phenomenon.
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