📅 On This Day in Military History

October 9

1 event across history

⚔️📍 Flodden Field, Northumberland, England1513

Battle of Flodden — England Defeats Scotland

An English army defeated the invading Scottish army under King James IV — who had invaded to relieve pressure on France under the Auld Alliance. James IV was killed along with most of Scotland's nobility.

Flodden was the worst military disaster in Scottish history and effectively ended Scotland as a military threat to England for generations.

Outcome

English victory; King James IV and 10,000 Scots killed

Casualties

12,000