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'The Battle of Ancrum Moor', 27 february 1545, (c1880). The Battle of Ancrum Moor was fought during the War of the Rough Wooing in 1545. King Henry VIII desired a diplomatic marriage between the infant Mary, Queen of Scots, to his son Edward, rejected by the Scottish Parliament, he declared war against Scotland. The Scottish victory put a temporary end to English depredations in the Scottish border and lowlands. According to Border legend, a Scottish woman warrior Maid Lilliard, was central in the defeat of the English, fighting and killing an English Commander in armed combat. From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. I, by James Grant. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, c1880]