Flodden

[ flod-n ]

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noun

a hill in NE England, in Northumberland county: the invading Scots were disastrously defeated here by the English, 1513.

Flodden

/ ˈflɒdən /

a hill in Northumberland where invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513 and James IV of Scotland was killed Also calledFlodden Field

The inscription goes on in this way to tell how he fought at Flodden Field when he was seventy, 'nothyng hedyng his age.'

The more eminent members are: Archibald, 2nd Earl, killed at the battle of Flodden, 1513.

I have the appetite but not the power; and, after all, it would hardly make up for Flodden.

Bannockburn is always the set-off to Flodden in popular estimation, and without it Flodden would be a sore subject.

The burly sutors who 'firmly stood' at Flodden when other 'pow'rful clans gave way'?

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