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The Flodden Disaster: Scotland's Day of Sorrow
In 1513, Scotland suffered one of its most devastating military defeats at the Battle of Flodden. James IV, the Renaissance king who had built a navy and patronized the printing press, led an army into England in support of France's war with Henry VIII. Against the advice of his commanders, he chose a poor battlefield near Branxton, where his forces were cut down by English billmen. The king himself died on the field, along with a dozen earls, hundreds of lairds, and much of the country's nobility. The loss plunged Scotland into a generation of political instability and left a deep…
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