Duart Castle on Mull, the ancestral stronghold of the MacLean chiefs, provided royalist resistance to English Cromwellian authority during the 1651 conquest. The MacLeans had been loyal to Montrose and now faced English power. The castle and its surrounding territory were eventually brought under English control by a combination of naval pressure and the MacLean clan's inability to resist the resources available to the occupying power.
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