Following Stirling Bridge, Wallace led a major raid into Northumberland and Cumberland in autumn 1297, reaching as far as the bishopric of Durham. The raid combined revenge for English atrocities in Scotland with strategic aims of disrupting English supply and denying resources. Churches were burned and populations displaced; the ravaging was deliberately destructive and made clear that Scotland under Wallace would take the war into England rather than await English reconquest.
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