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This category includes historical battles in which Anglo-Saxons (5th century–11th century) participated. Please see the category guidelines for more information.
American victory Battle of Tearcoat Swamp: October 25, 1780 South Carolina American victory La Balme's Defeat: November 5, 1780: Quebec: British-Iroquois victory Battle of Fishdam Ford: November 9, 1780: South Carolina: American victory Battle of Blackstock's Farm: November 20, 1780: South Carolina: American victory Battle of Fort St. George ...
Bede's work was widely read among the literate in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and his dates were used by the monks who compiled the various Anglo-Saxon Chronicles from the late ninth century onwards. [7] Some sources say that the Saxon warriors were invited to come, to the area now known as England, to help keep out invaders from Scotland and ...
A modern recreation of a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon warrior. The period of Anglo-Saxon warfare spans the 5th century AD to the 11th in Anglo-Saxon England.Its technology and tactics resemble those of other European cultural areas of the Early Medieval Period, although the Anglo-Saxons, unlike the Continental Germanic tribes such as the Franks and the Goths, do not appear to have regularly fought ...
Finally, about 6pm, the two enemies were within hailing distance. Jones had the American naval colours flying, and Lieut. Dobbs' formal inquiry as to the ship's identity was answered with absolute truth. [8] [9] The North Channel naval duel was in some respects a small-scale dress-rehearsal, in reverse, for Jones's 1779 battle with HMS Serapis.
According to the D Version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle attributed to John of Worcester, the siege lasted for eighteen days and William's army suffered large losses, presumably in direct assaults [16] At some stage in the battle, Gytha escaped from city by boat along the River Exe, together with some of her supporters, [17] indicating that ...
The Battle off Yarmouth took place on 28 March 1777 during the American Revolutionary War off the coast of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. [3] The battle is the first American armed vessel to engage the British Navy. The British vessel HMS Milford forced the American USS Cabot aground and the American crew escaped among the inhabitants of Yarmouth. [4 ...
The Battle of Cedar Bridge, fought in Barnegat Township, New Jersey, was the one of the last skirmishes of the American Revolutionary War, between Patriot militia under Captains Richard Shreve and Edward Thomas and Loyalist militia under John Bacon on December 27, 1782.