Lochmaben in Annandale was the Bruce ancestral stronghold and had been held by the English since the early stages of the war. Its recovery in 1313 was personally significant for Bruce as well as strategically important for controlling the western approach to Scotland through Annandale. Lochmaben would become one of the most contested castles of the Second War of Independence and the last to remain in Scottish hands in the south.
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