Following Falkirk, Edward I moved through Ayrshire in a punitive sweep, burning the town of Ayr to deny it as a supply base and assembly point for Scottish resistance. The Ayr campaign also targeted the Bruce family heartlands in Carrick, though Robert Bruce himself at this stage was nominally English-aligned. The destruction was part of Edward's deliberate policy of economic devastation to break Scottish resistance capacity.
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