The Flodden Memorial on Piper's Hill, overlooking the site of the battle
Date
9 September 1513
Location
Near Branxton, Northumberland, England
Result
English victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Scotland
Commanders and leaders
Earl of Surrey Lord Thomas Howard Lord Edmund Howard Baron Dacre Baron Monteagle
King James IV † Lord Home Earl of Montrose † Earl of Bothwell † Earl of Lennox † Earl of Argyll †
Strength
26,000
30,000 – 40,000
Casualties and losses
1,500 killed[1]
5,000 – 14,000 killed[2][3]
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Location within Northern England
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War of the League of Cambrai
Cadore
Agnadello
Padua
Vicenza
Polesella
Mirandola
Brescia
Ravenna
Navarre
Saint-Mathieu
Novara
Guinegate/The Spurs
Dijon
Flodden Field
La Motta
Marignano
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Anglo-Scottish Wars
Duns
1385
Melrose
Otterburn
1400
Fulhope Law
Nesbit Moor
Homildon Hill
Yeavering
Baugé
Cravant
Verneuil
Orléans
Meung-sur-Loire
Beaugency
Patay
Herrings
Piperdean
Sark
Lochmaben
Roxburgh
Berwick
Flodden Field
Hornshole
Haddon Rig
Solway Moss
Edinburgh
Ancrum Moor
Pinkie
Inchkeith
Haddington
Broughty Castle
Leith
Redeswire
The Battle of Flodden, Flodden Field, or occasionally Branxton or Brainston Moor[4] was fought on 9 September 1513 during the War of the League of Cambrai between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland and resulted in an English victory. The battle was fought near Branxton, in the county of Northumberland, in northern England, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by the Earl of Surrey.[5] In terms of troop numbers, it was the largest battle ever fought between the two kingdoms.[6]
After besieging and capturing several English border castles, James encamped his invading army on a commanding hilltop position at Flodden, awaited the English force that had been sent against him and declined a challenge to fight in an open field. Surrey's army, therefore, carried out a circuitous march to position themselves in the rear of the Scottish camp. The Scots countered that by abandoning their camp and occupying the adjacent Branxton Hill and denying it to the English.
The battle began with an artillery duel followed by a downhill advance by Scottish infantry armed with pikes. Unknown to the Scots, an area of marshy land lay in their path, which had the effect of breaking up their formations. That gave the English troops the chance to bring about a close-quarter battle for which they were better equipped. James IV was killed in the fighting and became the last monarch from Great Britain to die in battle. That and the loss of a large proportion of the nobility led to a political crisis in Scotland.
British historians sometimes use the Battle of Flodden to mark the end of the Middle Ages in the British Isles; another candidate is the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.
^Paterson, p. 147
^Elliot, p. 117
^Elliot, p. 118
^Cite error: The named reference HenryVIII was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Remembering Flodden | Map of the Battle". Flodden.net. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
^"The Seventy Greatest Battles of All Time". Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd. 2005. Edited by Jeremy Black. Pages 95 to 97.ISBN 978-0-500-25125-6.
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