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14th-century battle in Scotland

Battle of Turnberry

Date	February 1307
Location	near Turnberry, Scotland55°19′N 4°50′W / 55.32°N 4.83°W / 55.32; -4.83
Result	Scottish Victory

Belligerents

Commanders and leaders

Strength

Unknown

Casualties and losses

Low

Heavy

v t e First War of Scottish Independence
1296 1st Berwick Dunbar 1297–1304 Lanark Scone Stirling Bridge Falkirk Roslin Happrew Stirling Castle Earnside 1306–1314 Methven Dalrigh Loch Ryan Turnberry Glen Trool Loudoun Hill Slioch Inverurie Buchan River Dee Pass of Brander Roxburgh Bannockburn Ireland (1315–1318) Invasion of Ireland Moiry Pass Connor Kells Skerries Faughart 1315–1327 Carlisle Skaithmuir 2nd Berwick Myton Great Raid of 1322 Old Byland Weardale Treaties Auld Alliance Corbeil Edinburgh–Northampton

v t e Scottish Independence Wars
First Second Later Anglo-Scottish Wars

The Battle of Turnberry was fought in February 1307 during the Scottish Wars of Independence near Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland.

King Robert I of Scotland's invasion of his ancestral lands in Annandale and Carrick began in 1307. The Carrick invasion force was led by Robert, his brother Edward de Brus, James Douglas, Lord of Douglas and Robert Boyd. The force comprised thirty three galleys. They sailed to Turnberry and landed near Turnberry Castle. The invasion force quickly overwhelmed the English forces of Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy encamped around Turnberry Castle, but failed to take the castle.

Henry de Percy was forced to leave the castle after this defeat.

References

Barbour, John, The Bruce, trans. A. A. H. Douglas, 1964.
Sir Herbert Maxwell, The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272-1346: translated with notes (1913).

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