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commanded a force which enabled him completely to      invest it from the river Tweed to the sea. For six days the English were employed in erecting dikes and mounds against the wall, for the pur- pose of fixing their ladders, and carrying the fortifications by storm, which, after being com- pleted they made a simultaneous assault both by      sea and land. But the Scots brought forward another machine, armed with a huge mass of rock, which being discharged against the sow, a tre- mendous crash, mingled with the shrieks of the victims and the shouts of the soldiers on the wall, declared the success of the besieged. The Eng- lish now withdrew. Randolph, and the brave Lord Douglas dis- tinguished by their gallant exploits, now became the assailants, and entered England with an ar- my of 20,000 horsemen. King Edward led an      army of 30,000 men, who assembled at Durham. The two armies continued in sight of each other for two days, but victory crowned the efforts of      the Scots. The Scots afterwards maintained there inde- pence, and remained comparitively at peace, and King Robert Bruce resolved that at the head of      an army to undertake an expidition to the Holy Land, to make religious atonement, but was taken ill and died in the year 1329, at the age of 55.

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