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September 9, 1513

The King Who Fought on Foot

The Battle of Flodden and the death of King James IV of Scotland on September 9, 1513

When James the Fourth marched his Renaissance army into northern England, he gambled Scotland's elite on an ancient French alliance. Did chivalric bravado doom the Scottish crown on Branxton Hill, or was James outmaneuvered by an elderly earl who cut off his only road home?

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