The Anglo-Scottish Wars comprise the various battles which continued to be fought between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland from the time of the Wars of Independence in the early 14th
Scottish soldiers in the 14th C
English army at Berwick upon Tweed, 1482
James V : King of Scotland
William Grey charges with the English cavalry in the early stages of the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh.
The Union of the Crowns was the accession of James VI of Scotland to the thrones of England and Ireland as James I on 24 March 1603, and the consequent formation of a personal union between the Kingdo
Anglo-Scottish Wars
…increasingly complex political consequences for all sides by the later 16th century. The Anglo-Scottish Wars can be said to have formally ended with the Union of the Crowns in 1603, wherein England and Scotland entered a personal union under James VI and I, who inherited both crowns. Bloody conflict between the two states…
James in the year of his coronation in England, 1603
"England and Scotland with Minerva and Love" Allegorical work of the Union of the Crowns by Peter Paul Rubens
Arms of James VI and I in Edinburgh Castle, giving the Scottish elements precedence