Editing Dunbar (section)

===Later history===
The town became successively a baronial burgh and royal burgh (1370).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.johngraycentre.org/east-lothians-royal-burghs/|title=East Lothian's Royal Burgh|publisher=John Grey Centre|access-date=9 October 2022}}</ref> Cultivated [[Warren (burrow)|rabbit warrens]] on the links to the east and west of the town supplied [[food and the Scottish royal household|food to the royal household]]. In 1589, storms and windblown sand destroyed the warren on the west links.<ref>''Exchequer Rolls'', XII (Edinburgh, 1892), pp. 56, 368.</ref>

Major battles were fought nearby in [[Battle of Dunbar (1296)|1296]] and [[Battle of Dunbar (1650)|1650]]. The latter was fought during the [[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]] between a Scottish [[Covenanter]] army and English Parliamentarians led by [[Oliver Cromwell]]. The Scots were routed, leading to the overthrow of the monarchy and the occupation of Scotland.<ref>{{cite book|last=Reese|first=Peter|date=2006|title=Cromwell's Masterstroke: The Battle of Dunbar 1650|location=Barnsley|publisher=Pen & Sword Military|isbn=978-1-84415-179-0|pages=96–97}}</ref>

A permanent military presence was established in the town with the completion of [[Lauderdale House, Dunbar|Castle Park Barracks]] in 1855.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dunbar.org.uk/dunbar-high-street-closes/|title=Historic closes and wynds|access-date=6 December 2014}}</ref>

The local band, Dunbar Royal British Legion Pipe Band, which was founded in 1976, has competed with success in national competitions.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/17824891.royal-british-legion-pipe-band-record-greatest-achievement/|title=Royal British Legion pipe band record 'greatest achievement'|date=12 August 2019|newspaper=East Lothian Courier|access-date=9 October 2022}}</ref>

On 3 January 1987, a devastating fire destroyed much of the town's historic parish church: though the fire practically destroyed the monument and left only the outer walls remaining, the church has since been rebuilt with a modern interior.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/13556766.25-years-on-church-refurb-really-fires-the-imagination/|title=25 years on, church refurb really fires the imagination|date=12 January 2012|newspaper=East Lothian Courier|access-date=9 October 2022}}</ref>