Editing Battle of Stirling Bridge (section)

==Aftermath==
Surrey left William de Warine and Sir Marmaduke Thweng in charge of Stirling Castle, as Surrey abandoned his army, and fled towards Berwick.<ref name=sr/>

The contemporary English chronicler [[Walter of Guisborough]] recorded the English losses in the battle as 100 cavalry and 5,000 infantry killed.<ref name=Cowan>Cowan, Edward J., ''The Wallace Book'', 2007, John Donald, {{ISBN|978-0-85976-652-4}}, p. 69</ref> Scottish casualties in the battle are unrecorded, with the exception of Andrew Moray, who was mortally wounded during the battle, and was dead by November.<ref name=sr/>

The ''[[Lanercost Chronicle]]'' records that Wallace had a broad strip of Cressingham's skin, "...taken from the head to the heel, to make therewith a [[baldric]]k for his sword."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maxwell |first1=Herbert |title=The Chronicle of Lanercost |url=https://archive.org/details/chronicleoflaner02maxw/page/164/mode/2up?q=cressingham |via=Internet Archive |publisher=James Maclehose and Sons |access-date=26 June 2020 |page=164}}</ref>

The Scots proceeded to raid the south as far as [[Durham, England]]. Wallace was appointed "[[Guardian of Scotland|Guardian of the kingdom of Scotland]] and commander of its army." Yet, Edward was already planning another invasion of Scotland, which would lead to the [[Battle of Falkirk]].<ref name=sr/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Michael |title=The Wars of Scotland, 1214–1371, Volume 4 in The New Edinburgh History of Scotland |date=2004 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press Ltd. |location=Edinburgh |isbn=9780748612383 |pages=184–188}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Brown |first1=Chris |title=Scottish Battlefields, 500 Battles That Shaped Scottish History |date=2008 |publisher=Tempus Publishing |location=Stroud |isbn=9780752436852 |pages=126–128, 270–273}}</ref>

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File:SterlingBridge.jpg|The present-day Stirling Bridge
File:Stirling Bridge and Wallace Monument.JPG|Stirling Bridge from the south bank of the [[River Forth]] with the [[Wallace Monument]] in the background
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