Editing Scorched earth (section)

==14th century==
===Hundred Years' War===
{{main|Chevauchée}}
[[File:Robert the Bruce stipple engraving.jpg|thumb|[[Robert the Bruce]]]]

During the [[Hundred Years' War]], both the English and the French conducted [[chevauchée]] raids over the enemy territory to damage its infrastructure.

[[Robert the Bruce]] counselled using scorched earth to frustrate the invasion of Scotland by [[Edward I of England]], according to an anonymous 14th-century poem:
{{poemquote|in strait places gar keep all store,
And byrnen ye plainland them before,
That they shall pass away in haist
What that they find na thing but waist.
...&nbsp;This is the counsel and intent
Of gud King Robert's testiment.{{sfn|Oman|1905|p=579}}{{sfn|Fraser|1971}}}}

===Wars of Scottish Independence===
[[File:Corfe Castke 57.JPG|thumb|upright=1|[[Corfe Castle]] was [[slighting|slighted]] during the [[English Civil War]] so that its defences could not be reused.]]
A [[slighting]] is the deliberate destruction, whether partial or complete, of a [[fortification]] without opposition. Sometimes, such as during the [[Wars of Scottish Independence]] and the [[English Civil War]], it was done to render the structure unusable as a fortress.{{sfn|Manganiello|2004|p=498}}{{sfn|Lowry|2006|p=29}}{{sfn|Perry|Blackburn|2000|p=321}} In England, [[adulterine castle|adulterine (unauthorised) castles]] would usually be slighted if captured by a king.{{sfn|Muir|1997|p=173}} During the [[Wars of Scottish Independence]], Robert the Bruce adopted a strategy of slighting Scottish castles to prevent them from being occupied by the invading English.{{sfn|Perry|Blackburn|2000|p=321}}{{sfn|Traquar|1998|p=159}} 

===Crusades===
A strategy of slighting castles in Palestine was also adopted by the [[Mamluk]]es during their wars with the [[Crusades|Crusaders]].{{sfn|Fulton|2020}}