Battle of Lochmaben
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| Battle of Lochmaben | |||||||
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Part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Kingdom of Scotland |
.svg){kind=small} Kingdom of England | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| King James II |
Kingdom of England | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| unknown, probably at least several thousand | unknown, probably at least several thousand | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| light | 600 slain and 1,500 prisoners[1] | ||||||
Battle of Lochmaben[edit]
Despite the truce that was intact since the Scottish victory at Sark in 1448 which forced the English to terms, the English War of the Roses dragged the two nations back in to conflict, as the king of Scots allied with the Lancastrians and his rebellious Douglas subjects allied with the house of York. According to David Hume of Godscroft, "In October 1458, a strong force of Yorkist troops entered Annandale, Douglas territory. James II responded with an army which utterly routed the Yorkists;" 600 were slain and 1,500 taken prisoner.[2][3]The Yorkist force moved into Scotland in support of the house of the Black Douglas', with whom they were allied in opposition to The Scottish crown and the Lancastrians,[4] but were crushed again by the Scots near Lochmaben Stone, in roughly the same location where ten years earlier at the Battle of Sark in 1448 another English invasion was crushed, only the English losses were far less at lochmaben in 1458 compared to Sark in 1448, where the majority of a 6000 strong English force was killed or captured.
References[edit]
Tytler, History of Scotland, vol. iv, p.145; Hume Brown op. cit., vol. i, pp.240-1
Rait, R. S. (1929). The Making of Scotland. United Kingdom: A. & C. Black, Limited. pp. 119
Pugh, R. (2013). The Killing Fields of Scotland: AD 83 to 1746. United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Books. pp.236
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- ↑ Pugh, R. (2013). The Killing Fields of Scotland: AD 83 to 1746. United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Books. pp.236
- ↑ Tytler, History of Scotland, vol. iv, p.145; Hume Brown op. cit., vol. i, pp.240-1
- ↑ Pugh, R. (2013). The Killing Fields of Scotland: AD 83 to 1746. United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Books. pp.236
- ↑ Rait, R. S. (1929). The Making of Scotland. United Kingdom: A. & C. Black, Limited. pp. 119
