The earls of Douglas and Moray soon lead the disgruntled Scots in forcing the newly crowned English puppet-king across the border, Edward III retaliates with troops, who engage the Scots on July 19, 1333 at Halidon Hill near Berwick-upon-Tweed in northern England.

The Scots charge downhill toward the English, a marsh between them, but, forgetting the lesson their fathers taught their English foes at Bannockburn, unwisely enter the marsh, become bogged down and are slaughtered by English longbows.

The boy-king David II flees to France, and his nephew—the son of Walter, the sixth steward, and Marjory, daughter of Robert I—is named regent, ruling Scotland north of the Firth of Forth.

“Restored” to the second Scottish throne, Baliol, under the necessary protection of English troops, rules the south.