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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65. The Tobacco Lords & the Slave Trade, Merchant City, Glasgow
64. The United States of America attacks Britain, Whitehaven, Cumbria
63. Auld Lang Syne & Robert Burns, Dumfries
62. The Birth of the Industrial Revolution, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire
61. Isaac Newton & Weighing the World - Schiehallion, Perthshire
60. General James Wolfe and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
59. Sat on a Volcano! Edinburgh
58. Captain Cook Sets Sail, Whitby, North Yorkshire.
57. Captain Cook - Where Dreams Are Made, Yorkshire
56. The Jacobites Last Stand, Culloden
55. England & Scotland United! St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh.
54. The Pitchfork Rebellion, Somerset.
53. Civil War! Lansdown Hill, Bath.
52. Civil War Coming! Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh
51. White Slavery, Dunashad Castle
50. Shakespeare & the Globe Theatre, London
49. Hampton Court Palace
48. The Spanish Armada, the Giant’s Causeway
47. Elizabeth I & the Spanish Armada
46. Francis Drake and the Golden Hind, Aldeburgh
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