E. Outflanked

This board describes the use of the heavy Scottish guns. The largest guns fired a stone round shot of up to 60 pounds weight. They were pulled from Flodden Hill by teams of up to sixteen pairs of oxen which could only manage a walking pace and needed regular rest stops. Firing from the height of Braxton Hill, the gunners found it difficult to find the correct range. The guns were slow to reload and re-emplace into a firing position. They not the correct type of guns for field use and were no match for the light English guns which were easily to move and rapid to reload and fire.

Moving the guns and the subsequent burning of the Scottish camp on Flodden Hill strongly suggests that King James has ordered a strategic withdrawal to relative safety across the Tweed, but Surrey’s late arrival on the scene spoiled this plan.

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