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Flodden
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Flodden, field, Northumberland, N England, just across the border from Coldstream, Scotland. It was the scene of the battle of Flodden Field (1513), in which the English under Thomas Howard, 2d duke of Norfolk, defeated the Scots under James IV, who was killed.
Flodden
a hill in Northumberland where invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513 and James IV of Scotland was killed


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1513: The Battle of Flodden Field was fought near Branxton in Northumberland, in which James IV of Scotland was defeated and killed by English troops under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.
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1513: The Battle of Flodden Field was fought near Branxton in Northumberland: James IV of Scotland was defeated and killed by English troops under Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.
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