Word: flodden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catherine won a decisive military victory against the Scots at Flodden, while Henry was uselessly and foolishly campaigning in France. Catherine, not the envoys of Ferdinand, was the real Spanish ambassador to her husband's court, until her loyalty to England and her father's duplicity turned her against the Spanish King. Her decision to stand against Henry's desire for an annulment of their marriage was one of the incidents that led to England's Protestant revolution...