Solway Moss, Battle of

Crushing defeat on 24 November 1542 of the Scots by an invading English force under the Duke of Norfolk. Some 500 Scottish prisoners were captured including two earls and five barons, and the shame is said to have led to James V's death three weeks later. The Treaty of Greenwich, by which the infant Mary Queen of Scots would marry Edward, Prince of Wales, was signed in the aftermath of the battle.