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 Robert the Bruce - Planting Scotland's roots

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Good. If the spider can try and try again, so can you. You get together a small loyal army of followers and move into nearby Ayrshire. You make many small attacks on castles held by the English. You are determined to win this time.

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You gain power and support from many different groups. Your influence stretches from the Celtic earls of the east to members of the Clan Donald in the west. Your mixed Anglo-Norman and Gaelic background lends you authority. You gain the support of leading Scottish nobles.

Slowly, but surely, you are gathering quite a force behind you.

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Engraving of the Good Sir James Douglas, by Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1904).
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Illustration of the Good Sir James Douglas