Battle of Piperdean

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Battle of Piperdean
Part of the Anglo-Scottish Border Wars
Site of the Battle of Piperdean, Old Cambus, frpom Piperdean Bridge
Date 10 September 1436 Location Near Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Scotland Result Decisive Scottish victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Scotland	Kingdom of England
Commanders
William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus	George, Earl of Dunbar Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland
Strength
	4,000
Casualties and losses
very few	few, 1500 hostages

v • d • e Anglo-Scottish Wars Piperdean – Sark – Flodden Field – Haddon Rig – Solway Moss – Ancrum Moor – Pinkie Cleugh

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The Battle of Piperdean (1436) was an engagement in the Scottish Borders, fought between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England.

An English force led by George de Dunbar, 11th Earl of March and Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland attempted to take the forfeited Dunbar's Castle of Dunbar, back from William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus who as Warden of the Scottish Marches had invested the castle the previous summer. Percy and Dunbar came north with some 4000 men.

Angus did not want to undergo a siege, and decided to pre-empt the English by attacking them en route. The English were surprised by the Scots, though there was little loss of life, 1500 English prisoners were taken.