Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of the Battle of Otterburn panel on visit to Fyvie Castle near Turriff in Aberdeenshire. In 1388 the Scots decided to take advantage of the disunity caused in England by the power struggle between King Richard II and the Lords Appellant by mounting a large scale cross border raid. James, Earl of Douglas, led a force into Northumberland, England. As they returned northwards, the Scots paused at Otterburn where, in pursuit of a chivalric challenge to Douglas, Henry Percy known as Hotspur led an English army into attack. Arriving near Otterburn at evening, Percy launched a flanking attack with part of his force under the Lords Redmane and Ogyl, hoping to panic the Scots into fleeing straight into the main body of troops under Percy himself. But rather than taking flight, the Scots launched a surprise counter attack on Percy's men. Fighting continued through the night, and eventually the Scots prevailed, although Douglas himself was killed. On the English side Henry Percy and twenty one other knights were captured, and over 1,000 were killed. The defeated Hotspur was eventually to meet his death at Shrewsbury in 1403 in an uprising against the King.
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