45. The Battle of Flodden, Northumberland
Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History
Fat Belly Films
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week Neil marches with us across the wild beauty of Northumberland to a battleground
that broke Scotland’s heart.
In 1513 Margaret Tudor watched as her husband, the glamours renaissance king, James IV of Scotland, set off to invade England and do battle with her brother, Henry VIII. When Henry invaded France James felt duty bound to honour the Auld Alliance, a treaty of mutual assistance between Scotland and France. In retaliation he led the largest Scottish army ever to invade England across the border. James' powerful force bristling with the latest military technology met an English army led by the Earl of Surrey at Flodden. It was a brutal and bloody battle, fought with formidable pikes imported from the continent, cannon fire, slaughter and a deadly arrow to the King’s face.
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| 0:54.8 | Queue the music. Because of that absence of himself and the whole that he tore in the fabric of reality, |
| 1:11.0 | by his failed efforts at Flodden he affected the destinies of England and |
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| 1:20.8 | In this podcast we're marching to a battle that cut down a generation in one fell swoop. |
| 1:28.0 | A Renaissance King, the Great and the Good, and thousands of brave foot soldiers. |
| 1:37.0 | The old alliance drawing a nation to arms, a husband locked in mortal combat with his wife's brother. |
| 1:45.0 | Formitable pikes, cannon fire, slaughter, and a deadly arrow to the king's face, brutal and bloody. It was a battle that broke Scotland's heart. |
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