M.M.: Americans' fascination with this English invasion of music and what they believe was important culture I've never understood.

In return for a fee the Emperor promises to support an English invasion.

Two English invasions followed - and for these many blamed Beaton.

Rome, enjoying a rare period of peace, was perfectly set up for this English invasion.

However, his army was defeated by an English invasion at the battle of Pinkie in September 1547.

King James, always fearing an English invasion, needed Morneith's large army.

Scottish kings were rarely powerful enough, or could muster an army large and united enough to keep permanent guard along the frontier against major English invasions.

Welcomed as peacemakers, they soon aroused ancestral memories of long-ago English invasions.

Scotland resists an English invasion led by Harry Hotspur.

Although the expected English invasion never materialised after Flodden, the 16th century was a turbulent period in Scotland.