In 1327, in the final years before his death, Bruce moved to reassert Scottish authority in the western seaboard and monitor the Ulster situation. Scottish galley forces remained active in the Hebrides and the western Irish Sea; Bruce's interest in western maritime power reflected the importance of the Gaelic Atlantic world to Scottish strategy during the Wars of Independence. His final campaigns secured the western approaches before the Weardale campaign and the subsequent peace negotiations.
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