A follow-up campaign in Argyll in 1222, conducted alongside Alexander II's punitive expedition to Caithness, consolidated Scottish control over the western highlands. Alexander was systematically closing off the peripheral regions where royal authority was weakest. The western campaigns formed one part of a coordinated royal assertion of authority over the most troublesome regions of the kingdom.
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