Qualla: Battle of Haddon Rig https://qualla.com/battle-of-haddon-rig en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/k/battle-of-haddon-rig-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Haddon Rig https://qualla.com/battle-of-haddon-rig Battle of Haddon Rig: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-haddon-rig/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Daybreak on 24 August 1542 caught the English flat-footed. Their raiding parties had broken into two columns to plunder the Scottish and Debatable Lands, then reunited at Heiton on the Hill, driving captured sheep and cattle ahead of them. They expected nothing more than the long ride home. What they got was the Earl of Huntly's army drawn up in battle order on Haddon Rig, a glacial ridge between Sprouston and the Tweed, with Walter Lindsay of Torphichen and two thousand of Scotland's best troops poised at its summit. The English commander Robert Bowes had walked into a trap his own spies had failed to find. Above 2,000 Englishmen died on the ridge that morning. Six hundred more, including Bowes himself, were marched off as prisoners. The Scots, by contemporary accounts, scarcely lost anyone worth counting.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/k/battle-of-haddon-rig-wp/gcyk-battle-of-haddon-rig-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Haddon Rig: The King Who Would Not Bend https://qualla.com/battle-of-haddon-rig/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Henry VIII, in the summer of 1542, was disgusted with his nephew. King James V of Scotland had refused to break with Rome, refused to abandon the Auld Alliance with France, and refused, repeatedly, to come south for a personal meeting with his uncle. Henry, finding King Francis I...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/k/battle-of-haddon-rig-wp/gcyk-battle-of-haddon-rig-the-king-who-would-not-bend.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Haddon Rig: Misorder on the Ridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-haddon-rig/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. The English postmortem was unsparing. George Douglas and the Earl of Angus, who had escaped only by the swiftness of his horse, wrote bluntly to the Privy Council in London: Trewely, it wos nocht tha that wan the feyld, it was we that losd it with our mysordour. Truly, it was not...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/k/battle-of-haddon-rig-wp/gcyk-battle-of-haddon-rig-misorder-on-the-ridge.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Haddon Rig: Norfolk's Retaliation https://qualla.com/battle-of-haddon-rig/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Henry could not let the defeat stand. The Duke of Norfolk was ordered to cross the border and conduct a noble exploit to wipe out the dishonour. For five days in late October, Norfolk's men burned villages and towers around Kelso and Roxburgh, putting Paxton, Floors, Stichill, Ed...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/k/battle-of-haddon-rig-wp/gcyk-battle-of-haddon-rig-norfolks-retaliation.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Haddon Rig: The Triumph That Curdled https://qualla.com/battle-of-haddon-rig/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Three months after Haddon Rig, a second Scottish army marched south against Thomas Wharton's English force near Longtown. On 24 November, on the marshy ground of Solway Moss, the Scottish army collapsed without a coherent fight, losing not to overwhelming odds but to confusion in...

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