Scottish Renaissance Armies 1513–1550

Dr Jonathan Cooper was born in 1965 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and educated in Cannock, Staffordshire. He served in the Merchant Navy and in the Royal Air Force, before undertaking an MLitt and PhD from Glasgow University in Battlefield Archaeology. His previous work includes the first in-depth study of his hometown battle at Linlithgow Bridge.

• INTRODUCTIONCAMPAIGNS & BATTLES* Flodden , 1513 – Linlithgow Bridge, 1526 – Loch Lochy, 1544 – Ancrum Moor, 1545 – Pinkie Cleugh, 1547 RECRUITMENT & ORGANIZATION* Retinues and levies * Organization in the field TACTICS* ‘In the Manner of Almayns’* Sieges* Raiding * The HighlandsEQUIPMENT & WEAPONS * Armour* Infantry weapons: polearms – swords – bows – handguns * Cavalry: heavy horse – light horse * Artillery* Identification: banners and standards – badges and field signs‘THE AULD ALLIANCE’* Franco-Scottish collaboration SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYPLATE COMMENTARIESINDEX