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English Battles
Partisan War, The War of Englisc Resistance 106...
Sep 29 2010 11:00 PM | Harold Godwinsson in English Battles
THE BEGINNINGS OF NORMAN CONQUEST AND TWENTY YEARS OF ENGLISH RESISTANCE 1066 AD: THE CONSEQUENCES OF ENGLISH DEFEAT AT HASTINGS On October 14 1066 the last native and true Anglo-Saxon English king was dead, killed in battle defending his hearth, hom...
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Military Timeline (Part 2)
Dec 22 2009 07:40 PM | badger in English Battles
900 Constantine becomes ruler of Scotland - Constantine claimed the throne of Scotland when Donald II was killed in battle. 902 Norwegians expelled from Dublin.- The Norse that had occupied Dublin were expelled with nowhere to go. Over the next few...
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Military Timeline (Part 1)
Dec 22 2009 07:39 PM | badger in English Battles
802 Vikings raid Iona – This year was the moon eclipsed, at dawn, on the thirteenth day before the calends of January; and Bernmod was consecrated Bishop of Rochester. The monastic community founded by St. Columba on the tiny island of Iona off th...
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The Battle Of Ellendun
Dec 06 2009 03:15 PM | Penda Of Teotta's Halh in English Battles
Dates: Summer 825 In 823, Beornwulf became King of Mercia after deposing Ceolwulf I. Ceolwulf himself had only been king since 821, suceeding his brother Cœnwulf who died at at Basingwerk near Holywell, Flintshire whilst probably preparing for a ca...
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The Battle of Tinchebrai!
Nov 17 2009 01:42 PM | Harold Godwinsson in English Battles
Fought on the 28th September 1106 AD! The Battle of Tinchebrai was fought in September 1106 near the Town and Castle of Tinchebrai in South Western Normandy, somewhere between the towns of Vire and Flers. Between the Englisc Forces of King Henry...
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The Battle Of Holme
Nov 15 2009 05:33 PM | Penda Of Teotta's Halh in English Battles
13th December 902 On the 26th October 899, one of England's greatest Kings, King Ælfrēd The Great died. His son, Ēadweard, was expected to succeed him on the throne of England. This would have gone to plan, except for a challenge to...
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The Battles that Won and Made England! - (P...
Nov 09 2009 02:18 PM | Harold Godwinsson in English Battles
617 AD - 682 AD AD 617. Here Aethelfrith, king of the Northumbrians, was killed by Raedwald, king of the East Angles,* and Edwin, Aelle's offspring, succeeded to the kingdom, and conquered all of Britain except for the inhabitants of Kent alone...
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The Battles that Won and Made England! - (P...
Nov 09 2009 02:17 PM | Harold Godwinsson in English Battles
601 AD - 616 AD 601 AD. Here Pope Gregory sent pallium to Archbishop Augustine in Britain, and very many religious teachers to help him, and Bishop Paulinus [who]* turned Edwin, King of Northumbria, to baptism. *Finserts ‘and among them was Paulinu...
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The Battles that Won and Made England! - (P...
Nov 09 2009 02:16 PM | Harold Godwinsson in English Battles
571 AD - 597 AD In the year 571 AD, it is mentioned in the ASC, that, here Cutha fought against the Brythons at Biedcanford and took four Brythonic-settlements:* which were, Limbury, Aylesbury, Benson and Eynsham;* and in the same year he passed aw...
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The Battles that Won and Made England! - (P...
Nov 09 2009 02:15 PM | Harold Godwinsson in English Battles
491 AD - 568 AD In the year 491 AD the Englisc war-band leader Ælle and his son Cissa, who may also have had his own war-band? Besieged and saked the old Roman shore Fort of Anderitum, or Andredes-cester; which was and still is, the Roman coastal f...
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The Battles that Won and Made England! - (P...
Nov 09 2009 02:14 PM | Harold Godwinsson in English Battles
Early 400's AD to Early 700's AD THE BATTLES AND CAMPAIGNS THAT WON AND MADE ENGLAND Introduction There have been many Battles and Campaigns between the advent of the English in the early to mid-400's AD to 1066 AD, but as you know I...
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The Battle Of Tettenhall / Wednesfield
Nov 02 2009 10:03 PM | Penda Of Teotta's Halh in English Battles
After the military reorganisation of England under King Ælfrēd The Great in the preceding years, the English were in a position to not only defend themselves, but to attack the Danish vikings residing in the 'Danelaw' - an area negotiat...
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The Englisc Resistance to the Norman Usurpers!
Oct 31 2009 02:15 PM | Harold Godwinsson in English Battles
WILLIAM’S MARCH ON LONDON After the construction of the cairn or Mountjoy, on Caldbec Hill, William returned to the camp at Hastings. Here he waited five days, partly to rest his troops and partly to await any arrival of a deputation from the Engli...
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1066 A Year of Three Battles and And An England...
Oct 31 2009 12:20 PM | Harold Godwinsson in English Battles
English shields, and once again the bitter hand to hand fighting resumed, but still the Normans couldn't force the English off of that bloody ridge, or even force away through the wall of shields. Whenever a group of Norman knights broke in the...
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1066 A Year of Three Battles and And An England...
Oct 31 2009 11:57 AM | Harold Godwinsson in English Battles
THE RISE OF THE NORMANS Strong, fearless, disciplined, and brutally harsh, the new Norman Knights swept away old cultures and theories of war across the face of Europe from England to Sicily. At Least that is the History written by Norman Propergan...
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England before the Norman Conquest
Oct 30 2009 08:04 PM | Harold Godwinsson in English Battles
England on the Eve of the Norman Conquest by David Howarth It was not a bad life being English in 1066 on the eve of the Norman Conquest; it was the kind of life that many modern people vainly envy. For the most part, it was lived in little villag...
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