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===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}}