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Battle of Otterburn
Otterburn · Northumberland · Anglo-Scottish border
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
In August 1388, a Scottish raiding force under James, Earl of Douglas, defeated an English army under Henry 'Hotspur' Percy in a night battle at Otterburn in Northumberland. Douglas was killed and Percy captured; the clash became celebrated in border ballad tradition.
Belligerents2
- Kingdom of Scotland
- Kingdom of England
ON THE MAPKingdom of ScotlandKingdom of England
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Otterburn
- Battlefields Trust: Battle of Otterburn
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Battle of Otterburn (1388). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-otterburn · Sources & methodology