Next month is the anniversary of the Battle of Skaithmuir, February 1316. Fought during the wars of independence, the battle involved the interception of an Anglo-French squadron from Berwick Castle by a patrol of Scots cavalry led by Sir James Douglas (the Good Sir James or the Black Douglas depending on your point of view).
Reckoned by Douglas to be the hardest fight he ever had, and he was a good judge, the outnumbered Scots defeated the raiders and put them to flight.
Perhaps something for the 1513 Club to mull over.
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