One of the most humiliating military defeats in Scottish history — an army perhaps three times the size of the English force simply fell apart. James V had sent Oliver Sinclair as commander; the Scottish nobles refused to fight under a royal favourite of low birth. The army became mired in the boggy moss and surrendered wholesale. James V, already ill, received news of the defeat and that his wife had given birth to a daughter — Mary. He turned his face to the wall and died saying his dynasty had come with a woman and would go with a woman. Mary Queen of Scots was six days old.
c.20 killed; c.1,200-3,000 captured
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