Buitle Castle near Dalbeattie in Galloway was one of the last English-held castles in the south-west to fall before Bannockburn. Its capture in 1313 completed Scottish control of Galloway and removed the threat of an English landing point in the south-west. Bruce demolished it as was his standard practice. By 1314 the only major English-held castles in Scotland were Stirling and Berwick — the siege of Stirling was what made Bannockburn inevitable.
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