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Sauchieburn, Battle of

Years: 1488 - 1488

The Battle of Sauchieburn is fought on June 11, 1488, at the side of Sauchie Burn, a stream about two miles south of Stirling, Scotland.

The battle is fought between the followers of King James III of Scotland and a large group of rebellious Scottish nobles including Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home, nominally led by the king's fifteen-year-old son, Prince James, Duke of Rothesay.

"We cannot be certain of being right about the future; but we can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past."

—G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America (1922)