Battle of Otterburn: Hotspur captured by Scots
August 1388
Scottish raiders under James Douglas met an English force led by Henry Percy, called Hotspur, in a moonlit Northumbrian valley. Douglas was killed but his men won, taking Hotspur prisoner. The battle became one of the great set-pieces of Anglo-Scottish border warfare. The ballad of Chevy Chase preserved the fight in border memory long after the political stakes had been forgotten.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.