At the Pass of Brander in 1308 the MacDougalls planned to replicate Dal Righ by ambushing Bruce from the hillside above the pass while a galley fleet on Loch Awe covered the water flank. Bruce countered by sending James Douglas with archers up the hillside above the ambushers, turning the ambush into a trap for the MacDougalls. The fleet was unable to intervene as the hillside ambush was defeated; the MacDougalls fled and their power in Argyll was broken.
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