Bruce's first real military success after landing in Carrick in 1307. Returning from his fugitive years in the western isles, he lured a pursuing English force under Clifford and Mowbray up the narrow valley above Loch Trool. His men rolled boulders down on the English vanguard from the hillsides and then charged. The English broke and fled. A granite boulder on the hillside above Loch Trool — the Bruce Stone — marks the site. The victory was strategically vital: it proved Bruce could beat the English in the terrain of south-west Scotland.
English force heavily mauled; Scottish losses minimal
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