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Chris
Brown.
The Second Scottish Wars of Independence 1332-1363.
Stroud:
Tempus, 2002.
157pp, illustrated.
Paperback, ISBN
0752423126.
Publisher's
recommended price £16.99
The wars
of William
Wallace and Robert the Bruce cast a long shadow in Scottish history.
The
collapse and recovery of the Bruce cause in the reign of his son, David
II, has not attracted much attention among historians of medieval
warfare
despite the fact that the Scots were utterly defeated in three major
battles.
The nobility was destroyed at Dupplin Muir, the rank and file died in
droves
at Halidon Hill and, at Neville's Cross, the Scottish king was
captured.
So how did the English manage to lose the war? Drawn from English and
Scottish
state papers and chronicle accounts, this new book tells the story of
the
armies and campaigns that would develop the tactics that gave English
forces
the dramatic triumphs of the Hundred Years War.
The
fight of Edward
III and his ally-cum-protégé Edward Balliol to oust the
Bruce
dynasty and bring Scotland into the feudal hegemony of England provided
the arena for the first chivalric war in the British Isles. It saw not
only the first demonstration of the terrifying arrow storm, but was
also
a war of minor actions and territorial dominance in the classic
guerilla
style. It was a war of romantic tournaments in grand castles and
'schools'
of soldiering operating across Scotland and northern England. More than
any other Anglo-Scottish conflict it attracted the interest of foreign
knights. Men - and one woman - came from all over Europe to be at the
forefront
of modern warfare and to pursue fame and fortune in the dangerous and
exciting
world of chivalry.
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