In October 1489, the former supporters of James III, led by John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox, gathered at Dumbarton Castle in an attempt to resist the new king and had hoped to secure the backing of Henry VII of England. James IV moved decisively against them, defeating the rebel forces in a battle fought between the Touch and Menteith hills near Stirling on 11 and 12 October 1489. This engagement broke the organised resistance of the Jacobite loyalists who had congregated at Dumbarton.
Following his victory, James IV turned Dumbarton to his own purposes, using it as the principal west coast base for his navy and for his campaigns to subdue the Western Isles. By November 1489 the king was at Dumbarton in the company of the Chancellor of Scotland, Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, and had the use of a ship belonging to the Laird of Luss, indicating how swiftly the castle passed into royal hands after the rebellion was crushed.
The former supporters of James III had pinned their hopes on foreign assistance, assembling at Dumbarton Castle in October 1489 and looking to Henry VII of England for support; instead, James IV met them in the field between the Touch and Menteith hills near Stirling on 11 and 12 October and defeated them outright, leaving the castle to serve thereafter as his own naval base on the west coast.
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Rebel supporters of James III under John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox, versus the royal forces of James IV
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