Robert Bruce s forces under Walter Stewart and James Douglas captured Berwick by surprise in April 1318. A Flemish merchant Peter de Spalding betrayed the English garrison by arranging to open a section of wall at night. Scottish forces scaled the walls on rope ladders and overwhelmed the garrison. The fall of Berwick was a catastrophic blow to English control of the eastern Border and a major triumph for Bruce.
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