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 ( 41 ) of the Engliſh, he marched to Stirling, and took the cattle. From thence advanced to Argyle and Lorn and quickly recovered that adjacent country. He next marched to Perth took that place, and recovered all the neighbouring places. He likewiſe pene- trated into Angus and Mearns ; took and demoliſhed the caſtles of Forfar; Brechin, and Montroſe, that he might not leſſen his army by leaving garrisons in them. He alſo took the caſtle of Dunnoter by ſuppriſe and, on account of its importance, he garriſoned it. When he approached Aberdeen it was all in flames, the English having ſet fire to it, and fled into the citadel. The cattle of Dundee was the only place, north of the Tay, which withſtood the arms of Wallace. While beſieging this fora, he received intelligence of the approach of the Engliſh army, commanded by John, Earl of Surrey, and Sir Hugh Creſſingham, and re- inforced by a great number of diaffected Scotſmen; the whole army corflug of about 40 000. Determined to attack the Engliſh army in no place but one of his own. ſelecting, having commanded the inhabitants of Dundee, upon pain of death, to proſecute the fiege of the caſtle, he intiantly narched with his army towards Surling, and en- camped it an advantageous place, upon a hill above the Monaſtery of Cambuskenneth, on the D3