Verneuil: Defeat for the Scots but Victory for King James?
Verneuil: Defeat for the Scots but Victory for King James? Professor Richard Oram. Just as James was starting on the final leg of his journey home to Scotland in early April 1424, his cousin John Stewart, earl of Buchan, and brother-in-law Archibald, 4th earl of Douglas, were preparing their 6500-strong Scottish army to resume the…