Posted on 06/12/2009 5:46:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In just three hours of savage, face-to-face fighting in a Northumberland field, 15,000 men lost their lives in the most brutal of ways.
The scale of the butchery in 1513 at the Battle of Flodden, near the village of Branxton, is astonishing in an age well before the mechanised killing capabilities of modern artillery.
At the end, the Scots King James IV, most of his accompanying nobility and 10,000 of their countrymen lay dead.
Now the first steps have been taken to plan how this momentous battle's 500th anniversary should be marked in just over four years' time.
For the clash was hugely important in many ways. It was the last medieval battle to be fought on British soil and influenced the future of European history...
(Excerpt) Read more at journallive.co.uk ...
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> The Scots, trained by French mercenaries, were told to fight in tight blocks of 10,000 men, armed with unfamiliar 28ft long European pikes, said Chris.
The English were much more comfortable with the 5ft billhooks they used for farming, and sliced off the business end of the Scots pikes before wading into the bogged-down Scottish ranks.<
How the mighty have fallen. Ze Fwench had the natural instinct for war, training even the earliest colonials on trench warfare..now, the only thing they’re good for is surrendering. (Well, this time the Germans are the “new” French)
In Flodden Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row ...
No? Wrong war?
nevermind
Great thread! The Battle of Flodden was one of the last major medieval battles, as well as one of the last battles where nobles fought on the front lines, and the lessons learned from it were critical in the development of modern warfare.
Payback for Bannockburn, 200 years earlier.
:’)
There’s a topic of a few months ago regarding the Battle of Culloden.
Thanks waggs!
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