In the days after Flodden, Scotland was effectively defenceless. The queen regent Margaret Tudor assembled what troops she could on Fala Muir south of Edinburgh. The Edinburgh city fathers were tearing down houses to build the Flodden Wall. The Earl of Surrey chose not to advance — supplies were short and autumn was coming. Scotland escaped a complete catastrophe purely by English inaction. The Fala Muir muster was the shadow army that stood between Scotland's annihilation and survival.
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