Capture of Roxburgh

This article is about the battle in 1460. For the battle in 1313, see Siege of Roxburgh Castle.

Capture of Roxburgh

Part of the Anglo-Scottish Border Wars

Date	3 August 1460
Location	Roxburgh Castle, Anglo-Scottish Border 55°35′48″N 2°27′24″W / 55.5966°N 2.4566°W / 55.5966; -2.4566Coordinates: 55°35′48″N 2°27′24″W / 55.5966°N 2.4566°W / 55.5966; -2.4566
Result	Limited Scottish victory

Belligerents

Kingdom of Scotland

Kingdom of England

Commanders and leaders

James II of Scotland†

Unknown (POW)

Strength

Unknown number of infantry and cannons

Unknown

Casualties and losses

Unknown, James II dead

Unknown

Anglo-Scottish Wars

Duns Otterburn English invasion of Scotland (1400) Nesbit Moor (1402) Homildon Hill Yeavering Piperdean Sark Roxburgh Berwick (1482) Lochmaben Fair Flodden Field Haddon Rig Solway Moss Edinburgh Ancrum Moor Pinkie Cleugh Inchkeith Haddington Broughty Castle Redeswire

The capture of Roxburgh, was a siege that took place during the Anglo-Scottish Wars. James II of Scotland had started a campaign to capture back all Scotland's castles from England, for the English were presently involved in a civil war. Roxburgh Castle was one of the last remaining English strongholds in Scotland and James led a large army and several cannons to take it. Victory was near when one of the King's cannons exploded and killed him. His army nonetheless took the castle. James' queen Mary of Guelders ordered the castle destroyed shortly after its capture.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Buchanan, George "The History of Scotland: With Notes, and a Continuation to the Present Time : in Six Volumes, Volume 2 pg 103-4"
↑ Linsay, Robert of Pitscottie The History of Scotland: From 21 February 1436. to March, 1565. in which are Contained Accounts of Many Remarkable Passages Altogether Differing from Our Other Historians; ... By Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie

Buchanan, George "The History of Scotland: With Notes, and a Continuation to the Present Time : in Six Volumes, Volume 2 pg 103-4" https://books.google.com/books?id=oXs9AAAAcAAJ&dq=buchanan+battle+of+sark+1448&q=Roxburgh#v=snippet&q=Roxburgh&f=false
Linsay, Robert of Pitscottie The History of Scotland: From 21 February 1436. to March, 1565. in which are Contained Accounts of Many Remarkable Passages Altogether Differing from Our Other Historians; ... By Robert Lindesay of Pitscottie https://books.google.com/books?id=f3NbAAAAQAAJ&dq=pitscottie+battle+of+sark&q=Roxburgh#v=snippet&q=Roxburgh&f=false

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