The Welsh Wars of Independence
Independent Wales was defined in the centuries after the Romans withdrew from Britain in AD 410. The wars of Welsh independence encompassed centuries of raids, expeditions, battles and sieges, but they were more than a series of military encounters: they were a political process.
Welsh Wars of Independence
Independent Wales was defined in the centuries after the Romans withdrew from Britain in AD 410. The wars of Welsh independence encompassed centuries of raids, expeditions, battles and sieges, but they were more than a series of military encounters: they were a political process.
The Welsh Wars of Edward I
Welsh Wars of Edward the First
J.E. Morris's The Welsh Wars of Edward I was first published in 1901 and remains the standard work on the military campaigns and the armies of Edward I in his conquests in Wales between 1277 and 1283 and his suppression of rebellions thereafter in the 1280s and '90s. Augmented by a new introduction by Michael Prestwich, Edward I's most recent biographer and one of the leading modern authorities on the period, this classic work is once again available to scholars and students of medieval history.
The Scottish and Welsh Wars 1250-1400
On 28 September 1066 William of Normandy landed near Hastings and prepared to meet the Anglo-Saxon army of King Harold Godwinson. On 10 October 1066 the two armies met; and after six hours of fighting what became known as the Battle of Hastings, the Anglo-Saxon army was crushed and their king slain. The Normans set up castles to control the native population, and four-fifths of all England's land changed ownership. However, despite initial Norman success, it was fully two centuries before the Anglo-Norman kings managed to penetrate the wild interiors of Wales and Scotland, and many more centuries before the countries of Scotland, Wales and England were united under one crown.
