Flodden, Battle of, fought on Flodden Hill, a low spur of the Cheviots, 6 m. S. of Coldstream, between James IV. of Scotland and the English under the Earl of Surrey on the 9th of September 1513, which resulted in the crushing defeat of the Scots, who lost their king and the flower of their nobility, an event celebrated in Jean Elliot's “Flowers of the Forest”; a spirited account is given in the sixth canto of Scott's “Marmion.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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