नॉर्थम्बरलैंड में एक पहाड़ी जहां 1513 में अंग्रेजी द्वारा आक्रमणकारी स्कॉट्स को पराजित किया गया था

flodden's Usage Examples:

The eldest of the cadet branches of the ducal house has its origin in William (c. 1510-1573), eldest son of the victor of Flodden by his second marriage.

He had fought as captain of the vanguard at Flodden and after the victory was created earl of Surrey.

The second duke, twice married, was father of at least eleven sons and six daughters, the sons including Edward the lord high admiral, killed in boarding Pregent's galleys at Brest, Edmund the knight marshal of the army at Flodden, and William the first Lord Howard of Effingham.

The victor of Flodden is the common ancestor of all living Howards that can show a descent from the main stock.

In his seventieth year, as lieutenant-general of the North, he led the English host on the great day of Flodden, earning a patent of the dukedom of Norfolk, dated 1 February 1513/4, and that strange patent which granted to him and his heirs that they should bear in the midst of the silver bend of their Howard shield a demi-lion stricken in the mouth with an arrow, in the right colours of the arms of the king of Scotland.

He fought at Flodden and escaped with his life, but his eldest son Alexander, (fifth of Merchiston) was killed.

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His own hopes of preferment had been strengthened by the death of many of the higher clergy at Flodden.

After the disaster at Flodden he was completely absorbed in public business.

From this date till the battle of Flodden, in September 1513, he appears to have been occupied with his ecclesiastical duties and literary work.

flodden's Meaning':

a hill in Northumberland where the invading Scots were defeated by the English in 1513