 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Tragic folly of Flodden.(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 3/27/1999; Collier, Andrew; 1077 words
; ... independent Scotland and England. The Battle of Flodden, in 1513, was the most devastating clash ... the fight. Yet the greatest tragedy of Flodden was that it need not have been fought ... until he occupied a fortified position on Flodden Edge, near the village of Branxton, overlooking ...
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Big business battles it out to learn lessons of Flodden campaign
The Scotsman; 1/31/2003; William Chisholm; 540 words
; ... by King James IV on the battlefield at Flodden - mistakes that cost the lives of 10,000 ... flower of the Scottish nation perished at Flodden, among them the king himself, nine earls ... Mr Ross believes that the lessons of Flodden have influenced military and business ...
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Nuns' mercy after carnage of Flodden remembered
The Scotsman; 9/9/2006; Fordyce Maxwell; 477 words
; ... a defeated nation. After the Battle of Flodden in 1513, legend has it that the English ... Tweed, Branxton Parish Council, and the Flodden 1513 Club, including one member in Australia ... Yesterday Gerald Tait, secretary of the Flodden 1513 Club, said: "When we started out ...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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In Flodden field the flower of Scotland fell.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England); 7/12/2004; 284 words
; ... 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden, the site of which lies within the ... to Branxton asked were, `where is Flodden Field?' and `is that all there is?' The project is trying to address that. Flodden Field features in a national Battlefield ...
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 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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Flodden's new fight.(News)
Sunday Mirror (London, England); 6/13/2004; 88 words
; ... memorial in tribute to the fallen at the ill-fated Battle of Flodden almost five centuries ago. The group wants to erect a pounds ... battlefield - just over the border in Northumberland. But the 1513 Flodden Club in Coldstream, Berwickshire, believe there should be a ...
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Flodden, our forgotten national disaster Critic's choice FLODDEN: A SCOTTISH TRAGEDY by Peter Reese (Birlinn, 9.99)
Daily Mail; 9/26/2003; TOM KYLE; 487 words
; ... Culloden. Few will tell you much about Flodden. A self-induced collective amnesia has ... Union of the Crowns and Parliaments. Thus Flodden led to the end of Scottish independence ... exercise, try the new paperback edition of Flodden by Niall Barr (Tempus, 9.99). As a senior ...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Flodden, our forgotten national disaster; Critic's choice FLODDEN: A SCOTTISH TRAGEDY by Peter Reese (Birlinn, [pounds sterling]9.99).
The Daily Mail (London, England); 9/26/2003; 492 words
; ... Culloden. Few will tell you much about Flodden. A self-induced collective amnesia has ... Union of the Crowns and Parliaments. Thus Flodden led to the end of Scottish independence ... exercise, try the new paperback edition of Flodden by Niall Barr (Tempus, [pounds sterling ...
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WHAT MAKES YOU A SCOT?; Race case judge says it's Culloden, Flodden and Flora MacDonald.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 12/12/2000; 580 words
; ... yesterday. One judge at the Court of Session in Edinburgh said Flodden, Bannockburn and Culloden marked the differences between the ... community. The Scots are a nation because of Bannockburn and Flodden, Culloden and the pipes at Lucknow, Jenny Geddes and Flora ...
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Flodden and frugal: Judges rule on Scottishness
The Independent - London; 12/13/2000; Cahal Milmo; 568 words
; ... races - defined in part by their bloody rivalry. The battles of Flodden, Culloden and Bannockburn have been held up by a court in Edinburgh ... community. The Scots are a nation because of Bannockburn and Flodden, Culloden and the pipes of Lucknow, Jenny Geddes and Flora ...
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Tourists Flodden in.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 7/16/2004; 31 words
; A pounds 30,000 tourist walkway is to be opened at the scene of Scotland's worst military defeat. More than 6000 men were killed by English troops at the Battle of Flodden, in Northumberland, in 1513.
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