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Category: Flodden Field

  • The ‘Battle of Flodden Field’

    The ‘Battle of Flodden Field’

    Ripening fields of barley give no indication that on 9th September 1513 between 7,000 and 11,000 Scottish soldiers were killed here, including King James IV and most of his important nobles, and between 1000 and 4000 English. To add to the slaughter, it is said that a force of at least 500 French mercenaries, who…