Scourging of Mann

The Scourging of Mann was a protracted military campaign occuring in the spring of 1301 between the Protractorate forces under William Jamieson and the Anglo-Balloil army led by John Balloil. The campaign resulted in a series of skirmishes and the devastation of the island by the Scottish invasion force. By the invasions end in June of 1301, law and order on the island had all but collapsed and the population had decreased by some 50%.

The Campaign
After the Sack of Aberdeen and the death of John Balloil and his loyal retainers, Jamieson deemed the Scottish Protactorate secure from the Balloil threat. However, this sense of security vanished when Protactorate spies across the Isles reported that John II had survived the massacre at Aberdeen and had fled to Mann, where he was gathering a force with English support. The large island off of Scotlands western coast had been used an English base for years, used to launch raids on the Scottish coast. Jamieson had intended to destroy the threat for some time, but it was only with the reports of John II's survival that he had a legitimate reason. Gathering a large force of Scotsmen and mercenaries through the winter of 1300,  by early March a force of some 10,000 had gathered.

On March 8th, led by William Wallace and Angus Douglas, the large invasion force landed on the southern tip of the island. Within weeks, the island-capital of Castletown had been surrounded, and after numerous refused surrender demands, besieged. As the castle was besieged, parties of Scottish horsmen raided the countryside, burning farms and killing those who resisted.

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