Of the nobles on the losing side, only Huntly, Lindsay, and Home escaped alive. The last of them, Lord Home, is sometimes alleged to have made an agreement with Lord Dacre to sit out the battle, and was pilloried in its aftermath. A skirmish was initially fought at Milfield, on a pretext of instigation by a man called "the bastard," John Heron, but the action then moved to Branxton Hill, which provides an alternate name for the battle. Thomas Howard, the Earl of Surrey, commanded forces since the remainder of the English army was in France under Henry VIII, and the result was a crushing defeat of James IV. FTP, name this 1513 victory for the English over the Scots, described in Walter Scott'
Of the nobles on the losing side, only Huntly, Lindsay, and Home escaped alive. The last of them, Lord Home, is sometimes alleged to have made an agreement with Lord Dacre to sit out the battle, and was pilloried in its aftermath. A skirmish was initially fought at Milfield, on a pretext of instigation by a man called "the bastard," John Heron, but the action then moved to Branxton Hill, which provides an alternate name for the battle. Thomas Howard, the Earl of Surrey, commanded forces since the remainder of the English army was in France under Henry VIII, and the result was a crushing defeat of James IV. FTP, name this 1513 victory for the English over the Scots, described in Walter Scott's Marmion.
Of the nobles on the losing side, only Huntly, Lindsay, and Home escaped alive.
Battle of Flodden Field (or Branxton Hill before mentioned)