2-648-642 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Battle of Flodden', 9 September 1513, (c1880). The Battle of Flodden or Flodden Field, or occasionally Battle of Branxton (Brainston Moor, was part of a conflict between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, fought in the county of Northumberland on 9 September 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by the Earl of Surrey, Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (1443-1524). It was a decisive English victory. James IV was killed in the battle, becoming the last monarch from the island of Great Britain to suffer such a death. From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. I, by James Grant. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, c1880]