This week Neil marches with us across the wild beauty of Northumberland to a battleground
that broke Scotland’s heart.
In 1513 Margaret Tudor watched as her husband, the glamours renaissance king, James IV of Scotland, set off to invade England and do battle with her brother, Henry VIII. When Henry invaded France James felt duty bound to honour the Auld Alliance, a treaty of mutual assistance between Scotland and France. In retaliation he led the largest Scottish army ever to invade England across the border. James' powerful force bristling with the latest military technology met an English army led by the Earl of Surrey at Flodden. It was a brutal and bloody battle, fought with formidable pikes imported from the continent, cannon fire, slaughter and a deadly arrow to the King’s face.
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47. Elizabeth I & the Spanish Armada
46. Francis Drake and the Golden Hind, Aldeburgh
44. Scotland’s Silver Brooch, Stirling
43. The League of Legends, Kings Lynn
42. Lost in the Mire, Morecambe Bay Sands, Lancashire
41. Last Stands of the Brave, Harlech Castle
40. The Wars of the Roses, Westminister Abbey
39. Making A King, Robert the Bruce
38. Europe’s Oldest Living Thing, Perthshire
37. Glastonbury, Somerset
36. Robert the Bruce and the Declaration of Arbroath
35. St Nectan’s Glen, Cornwall
34. The heart of the British Isles, Snaefell, Isle of Man
33. Magna Carta
32. Durham Cathedral
31. The Great War
30. A Great King, Hyde Abbey, Winchester
29. King Alfred the Great versus the Viking, The Alfred Jewel
28. The Vikings Great Heathen Army, Repton, Derbyshire
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