The Scots win one!!! Sep 10, 1436—Battle of Piperdean—The Battle of Piperdean was an engagement in the Scottish Borders, fought between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England. An English force led by George de Dunbar, 11th Earl of March and Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland attempted to take the forfeited Dunbars Castle of Dunbar, back from William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus who as Warden of the Scottish Marches had invested the castle the previous summer. Percy and Dunbar came north with some 4000 men. Angus did not want to undergo a siege, and decided to pre-empt the English by attacking them en route. An army of roughly the same force surprised the English, under Angus, Adam Hepburn of Hailes, Alexander Elphinstone of that ilk, and Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie. Although an overwhelming Scots victory, here is some confusion as to casualties and prisoners taken. Ridpath states that the Scots lost 200 men including Elphinstone, with Brenan concurring about this trifling amount, whilst stating that the English fatalities were to the tune of 1500 men, including 40 knights. Balfour Paul disagrees citing Walter Bowers Scotichronicon, stating that the slain on the field of both sides amounted to only forty, but with 1500 taken prisoner.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:08:36 +0000
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