In the weeks before Stirling Bridge, Scottish resistance forces under Wallace and Murray conducted interdiction operations against English supply columns moving through central Scotland. Hugh de Cressingham, the English treasurer in Scotland, was responsible for supply logistics and his inadequate provisioning contributed to the poor state of the English army at Stirling Bridge. Scottish harassment of English logistical lines through Stirlingshire shaped the conditions that led to the September battle.
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