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Flodden
[ flod-n ]
noun
- a hill in NE England, in Northumberland county: the invading Scots were disastrously defeated here by the English, 1513.
Flodden
/ ˈflɒdən /
noun
- a hill in Northumberland where invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513 and James IV of Scotland was killed Also calledFlodden Field
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The inscription goes on in this way to tell how he fought at Flodden Field when he was seventy, 'nothyng hedyng his age.'
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The more eminent members are: Archibald, 2nd Earl, killed at the battle of Flodden, 1513.
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I have the appetite but not the power; and, after all, it would hardly make up for Flodden.
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Bannockburn is always the set-off to Flodden in popular estimation, and without it Flodden would be a sore subject.
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The burly sutors who 'firmly stood' at Flodden when other 'pow'rful clans gave way'?
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