A Scottish army of up to 18,000 men dissolved on the boggy ground of Solway Moss when the king's favourite Oliver Sinclair was announced as commander — the nobles refused to take orders from him and the army simply stopped fighting. The humiliation broke James V's spirit; he died three weeks later, aged 30, reportedly lamenting that his dynasty had come with a woman (Mary, Queen of Scots, born six days before his death) and would go with a woman.
Few killed; c.1,200 captured
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