The Covenanting government assembled armed vessels in the Firth of Forth during the Second Bishops War to contest royalist naval activity and protect the Firth against any repeat of Hamilton's 1639 sea landing attempt. The Covenanting fleet prevented any significant royalist maritime intervention on the Forth shore during the 1640 campaign, securing the Covenanting army's eastern flank as it marched into England.
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