Edward I invades Scotland

1296

After John Balliol renounced his homage, Edward marched north, stormed Berwick with notorious brutality, and captured Stirling and Edinburgh. At Scone, he carried off the Stone of Destiny on which Scottish kings had been inaugurated. The First Scottish War of Independence began. The sack of Berwick, in which thousands of civilians were killed, became a defining atrocity of the Anglo-Scottish wars.