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Flodden, battle of
Flodden, battle of, 1513. While the young king Henry VIII was pursuing military glory against the French, his brother-in-law James IV of Scotland, an ally of France, declared war. He assembled one of the largest armies ever seen in Scotland, crossed the Tweed at Coldstream, and occupied the castles of Norham, Etal, Wark, and Ford. Lord Surrey (Norfolk), commanding the English forces, marched north from Newcastle to Wooler. His invitation, quaintly anachronistic, to do battle on 9 September was rejected by James, who replied that he would please himself. Nevertheless the armies met on the 9th, on Branxton Hill, near Flodden, having twisted round, the English facing south, the Scots north. Surrey's men fought with the Tweed at their backs. There was little tactical manœuvring, but four hours of desperate hand-to-hand combat, the fortunes fluctuating. The turning-point was when James himself, in the thick of the battle, was cut down. The Scots sustained the heaviest defeat of their history, the flower of their nobility dying with the king. James's body was brought south and for many years the coffin was deposited at Sheen in Surrey in the Carthusian house. The battlefield of Flodden is heavy open land, sombre and desolate.
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JOHN CANNON. "Flodden, battle of." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Flodden, battle of." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-Floddenbattleof.html JOHN CANNON. "Flodden, battle of." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-Floddenbattleof.html |
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Flodden, battle of
Flodden, battle of, 1513. While the young Henry VIII was pursuing military glory against the French, his brother‐in‐law James IV of Scotland, an ally of France, declared war. He crossed the Tweed at Coldstream, and occupied the castles of Norham, Etal, Wark, and Ford. Lord Surrey (Norfolk), commanding the English forces, marched north from Newcastle to Wooler. The armies met on the 9th, on Branxton Hill, near Flodden. There was little tactical manœuvring, but four hours of desperate hand‐to‐hand combat. The turning‐point was when James himself, in the thick of the battle, was cut down. The Scots sustained the heaviest defeat of their history, the flower of their nobility dying with the king.
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JOHN CANNON. "Flodden, battle of." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Flodden, battle of." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-Floddenbattleof.html JOHN CANNON. "Flodden, battle of." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-Floddenbattleof.html |
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Flodden Field, Battle of
Flodden Field, Battle of (9 September 1513) An important battle that took place between the English and the Scots on the Scottish border; it resulted in a major English victory that gave HENRY VIII security in the north for many years. A large army led by JAMES IV was defeated by a somewhat smaller force of about 20,000 English soldiers under the command of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. Long Scottish spears were no match for English bills and longbows, and the Scots lost perhaps as many as 10,000 dead, including James IV himself.
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"Flodden Field, Battle of." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Flodden Field, Battle of." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-FloddenFieldBattleof.html "Flodden Field, Battle of." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-FloddenFieldBattleof.html |
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Flodden (Field), Battle of
Flodden (Field), Battle of a decisive battle of the Anglo-Scottish war of 1513, at Flodden, a hill near the Northumbrian village of Branxton. A Scottish army under James IV was defeated by a smaller but better-led English force under the Earl of Surrey (sent northwards by Henry VIII, who was on campaign in France) and suffered heavy losses, including the king and most of his nobles.
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Flodden (Field), Battle of." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Flodden (Field), Battle of." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-FloddenFieldBattleof.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Flodden (Field), Battle of." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-FloddenFieldBattleof.html |
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