A hiker skirts the foot of the Fell of Eschoncan, Glen Trool, Dumfries and Galloway (DG8 6TA) in September 2020 near the Robert the Bruce (Earl of Carrick) Memorial, near Loch Troon, Galloway (2020 photograph). - The Battle of Glen Trool took place in the First War of Scottish Independence, fought in April 1307. Glen Trool is a narrow glen in the Southern Uplands of Galloway, Scotland in which Loch Trool (behind the monument) is located. As the English soldiers approached up the narrow glen in single file, Bruce's men hurled boulders and arrows down on them and secured a victory

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