The raid of 1448 was one of the largest Scottish incursions into England since the Wars of Independence. The English retaliation — a raid into Annandale — provoked the Scots to cross the Sark river and engage the English at the Battle of Sark, where the Scots won a significant victory. The episode demonstrates how border violence could escalate rapidly from raid to pitched battle in the fifteenth century.
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