Clan Gillean

68 The Clan Gillean.
who had the best armed of the Scottish troops
under his command, was driving back the Earl of
Surrey, and throwing- his squadrons into confusion.
At this juncture Thomas Howard and Lord Dacre
attacked his flank, but were kept in check by the
Earl of Bothwell and the Scottish reserve. Stan-
ley routed the division under Argyll and Lennox
with great slaughter. He was now at liberty to
make an attack upon the rear of the Scottish
army. This attack decided the fate of the day,
and also of King James and the brave men who
fought around him ; the Scots were defeated and
driven back to their own country.
King James and about 10,000 of his followers
were slain at Flodden ; the English lost about
7,000. Among the prominent men who fell with
James were the Earls of Crawford, Montrose,
Lennox, Argyll, Bothwell, Caithness, Rothes, and
Cassilis ; Hector Odhar, chief of the Clan Gillean ;
Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy ; Sir William
Gordon of Gight ; George and William Douglas,
sons of the Earl of Angus ; Sir John Sommerville
of Cambusnethan ; and Andrew Stewart, Bishop
of Caithness. It is said that two hundred gentle-
men of the name of Douglas lay dead upon the field
of battle, and that of the followers of the Earl of
Caithness only one man ever returned home. It is
affirmed by some writers that the Earl of Huntly
fled from the field after the first charge, and that
Lord Home and his followers began to collect all