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Soft back, 184 pages, Illustrated B&W, 13cm x 21cm |
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Some of these sites are not even scheduled ancient monuments!, so they could be searched with permission - and how about the fields surrounding those that are?
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On the back cover:
The battlefields of Britain are a strangely neglected part of our national heritage. A few, such as Bosworth and Culloden, have visitor centres, and efforts have been made to explain what happened at the battle, but most have no more than a monument, if that, to commemorate the valour of the combatants and the lives lost there centuries ago.
In this book John Kinross describes sixty-nine battles that took place on English or Scottish soil, from King Alfred's defeat of the Danes at Ashdown in 871 to the final crushing of the Jacobite cause in the snow at Culloden on 16th April 1746. He sets each battle in its historical context, describes the action in relation to the landscape and gives a guide to the site as it is today.
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Discovering Battlefields of England & Scotland by John Kinross |
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- Locations of battle sites
- Ashdown, 8th January 871
- Ethandum, 878
- Maldon, 11th August 991
- Stamford Bridge, 25th September 1066
- Hastings 14th October 1066
- The Standard, Northallerton, 22nd August 1138
- Lewes, 14th May 1264
- Evesham, 4th August 1265
- Stirling Bridge, 11th September 1297
- Bannockburn, 24th June 1314
- Myton, 20th September 1319
- Boroughbridge, 16th March 1322
- Halidon Hill, 19th July 1333
- Neville's Cross, 17th October 1346
- Otterburn, 19th August 1388
- Homildon Hill, 14th September 1402
- Shrewsbury, 21st July 1403
- Harlaw, 24th July 1411
- St. Albans, 22nd May 1455
- Blore Heath, 23rd September 1459
- Northampton, 10th July 1460
- Wakefield, 31st December 1460
- Mortimer's Cross, 2nd February 1461
- Towton, 29th March 1461
- Hedgeley Moor, 25th April 1464
- Edgecote, 26th July 1469
- Barnet, 14th April 1471
- Tewkesbury, 4th May 1471
- Bosworth Field, 22nd August 1485
- Stoke, 16th June 1487
- Flodden, 9th September 1513
- Ancrum Moor, 27th February 1545
- Pinkie, 10th September 1547
- Langside, 13th May 1568
- Newburn Ford, 28th August 1640
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- Edgehill, 23rd October 1642
- Stratton, 16th May 1643
- Chalgrove Field, 18th June 1643
- Adwalton Moor, 30th June 1643
- Lansdown, 6th July 1643
- Roundway Down, 13th July 1643
- Newbury I, 20th September 1643
- Winceby, 11th October 1643
- Nantwich, 25th January 1644
- Newark, 21st March 1644
- Cheriton, 29th March 1644
- Cropredy Bridge, 29th June 1644
- Marston Moor, 2nd July 1644
- Lostwithiel, 2nd September 1644
- Newbury II, 28th October 1644
- Auldearn, 9th May 1645
- Naseby, 14th June 1645
- Alford, 2nd July 1645
- Langport, 10th July 1645
- Kilsyth, 15th August 1645
- Philiphaugh, 13th September 1645
- Rowton Heath, 24th September 1645
- Preston, 17th-18th August 1648
- Dunbar, 3rd September 1650
- Worcester, 3rd September 1651
- Bothwell Bridge, 22nd June 1679
- Sedgemoor, 6th July 1685
- Killiecrankie, 27th July 1689
- Sheriffmuir, 13th November 1715
- Glen Shiel, 10th June 1719
- Prestonpans, 21st September 1745
- Clifton Moor, 18th December 1745
- Falkirk, 17th January 1746
- Culloden, 16th April 1746
- Bibliography
- Useful addresses
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