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There have been at least eight sieges of Stirling Castle, including several during the Wars of Scottish Independence, with the last being in 1746, when Bonnie Prince Charlie unsuccessfully tried to take the castle.
The last stronghold of resistance to English rule was Stirling Castle. Armed with twelve siege engines, the English laid siege to the castle in April 1304. For four months the castle was bombarded by lead balls (stripped from nearby church roofs), Greek fire, stone balls, and even some sort of gunpowder mixture.
May 29, 2023 · Sir William Bisset, a Scot who had pledged allegiance to Edward I, was first made Sheriff and latterly Constable of the castle and he organised repairs to Stirling Bridge. It would be 10 years until the Battle of Bannockburn and the 120 soldiers in the castle (large by contemporary standards) would by then have made friends and fathered ...
May 8, 2024 · Stirling Castle has seen sieges, battles and political drama, but it's also been at the heart of family life over the centuries.
Feb 24, 2023 · Stirling Castle has been besieged at least eight times, changing hands between English and Scottish control during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Notable sieges were in 1304 when Edward I deployed siege engines to force a surrender, and in 1746, when Charles Edward Stuart besieged the castle during the final Jacobite rising.
There have been at least eight sieges of Stirling Castle, a strategically important fortification in Stirling, Scotland. Stirling is located at the crossing of the River Forth, making it a key location for access to the north of Scotland.
By mid-1313 it was one of only three castles in the land whose English garrisons continued to defy his sieges. Sieges were long, mind-numbingly boring tasks to which the Scots were never particularly well-suited.
