Battle of Yeavering

Part of Anglo-Scottish Wars

Date	1415
Location	Yeavering, Northumberland, England
Result	English Victory

Belligerents

Kingdom of England

Kingdom of Scotland

Commanders and leaders

Robert Umfraville

Strength

440

4000

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

Rough Wooing

Glasgow – Edinburgh (1544) – Ancrum Moor – St Andrews Castle – Pinkie Cleugh – Haddington – Broughty Castle

The Battle of Yeavering (or Battle of Geteryne) was fought in 1415 between English and Scottish forces near Yeavering in Northumberland. A small English force consisting of 440 men led by the Earl of Westmoreland defeated 4000 Scots.^[1] Fought in the same year as the Battle of Agincourt, which famously demonstrated the efficacy of the longbow against cavalry, it is notable that the English side at Yeavering consisted mostly of archers.

The site is marked by a Battle Stone, probably originally a Bronze Age standing stone.

References

↑ "Yeading – Yettington", A Topographical Dictionary of England, British History Online, 1848, pp. 716–9, retrieved 11 June 2013

Coordinates: 55°34′01″N 2°06′46″W / 55.56694°N 2.11278°W / 55.56694; -2.11278

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Battle of Yeavering

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