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==== British Isles ====
* Summer &ndash; King [[Edward I of England]] ("Longshanks") marches from [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] with his household to [[Alnwick]] and then by way of [[Chillingham, Northumberland|Chillingham]] to [[Roxburgh]] in Scotland, where he joins the army in July. He proceeds to Lauderdale and encamps at [[Kirkliston]], to the west of [[Edinburgh]], where he remains from [[July 15]] to [[July 20]]. The army is accompanied by a long train of supply wagons. Meanwhile, English supply ships, delayed by bad weather, bring food to [[Leith]].<ref>Armstrong, Pete (2003). Osprey: ''Stirling Bridge & Falkirk 1297–98'', pp. 62–63. {{ISBN|1-84176-510-4}}.</ref> 
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Battle of Falkirk]]: English forces (some 15,000 men) led by Edward I defeat a Scottish army led by [[William Wallace]] at [[Falkirk]]. During the battle, the English knights drive off the Scottish horse and archers, but cannot break the pikemen in the center. The Scottish pikemen are formed in four great "hedgehogs" (known as [[schiltron]]) but are destroyed by English [[longbow]] archers.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology no page" />