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Flodden

noun
1.
A hill in Northumberland where the invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513.
2.
A battle in 1513; the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed.  Synonym: Battle of Flodden Field.





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"Flodden" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mr. Flodden, the landlord, began the discussion. "Last year we'd LLOYD GEORGE, but we can't have no politics now, though he's—well, I wish I could tell him what he is. Year before we'd the Squire for stopping up that footpath, but he's in the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 • Various
... him, that the nobility grew jealous of his influence, and by their united efforts produced his ruin. After many excellent services in France, he was constituted Lord Treasurer, and made General of the King's whole army design'd to march against the Scots: At the battle of Flodden, in which the Scots were routed and their Sovereign slain, the earl of Surry remarkably distinguished himself; he commanded under his father, and as soon as the jealousy of the Peers had fastened upon the one, they took care ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume I. • Theophilus Cibber


Words linked to "Flodden" :   Northumberland, hill, England, pitched battle


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