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"With the loss of some 5,000 lives, the Battle of Flodden was one of the heaviest defeats the Scots ever suffered. . . . Henry was too preoccupied to follow up the victory, but he could rest assured that, with James V only eighteen months old and a shortage of nobles to form an opposition, there would be no further Scottish threat to England for a generation." [Furtado: 1001 Days] The English army was led by the Earl of Surrey. The battle was fought in northern England. Henry VIII was busy with a siege in France. "James IV was killed in the fighting, becoming the last monarch from Great Britain to die in battle; this and the loss of a large proportion of the nobility led to a political crisis in Scotland. British historians sometimes use the battle to mark the end of the Middle Ages in the British Isles." [Wikipedia]