In the last full year of his reign, Alexander II received the submission of the remaining Argyll lords who had resisted Scottish royal authority. The submission cleared the way for the great naval expedition of 1249 to finally resolve the Western Isles question. Alexander's years of patient military campaigning in Argyll had finally brought the western highland lords to heel. His death the following year at Kerrera meant he never completed the western programme he had worked so long to achieve.
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