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Shakespeare used the Battle of Towton to illustrate the ills of civil war; in 3 Henry VI, Act 2, Scene 5, a father finds he has killed his son, while a son finds he has killed his own father. In the sixteenth century William Shakespeare wrote a number of dramatisations of historic figures.
Second Punic War: 40,000 (including Archimedes) 9,000 Siege of Carthage: 149-146 BC Third Punic War: 450,000 (including 50,000 civilians enslaved) 200,000 Siege of Athens and Piraeus: 87–86 BC Mithridatic Wars (First Mithridatic War) 400,000 (including prisoners) 200,000 [1] Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) 63 BC Mithridatic Wars (First Mithridatic ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
733 Battle of Devawdan, another British victory. 735 First Battle of Hereford where the British are victorious after a long and bloody fight. 743 an allied army of Mercians and West Saxons fight the British. Possible construction of Wat's Dyke. 752 where Eadberht of Northumbria invades the Kingdom of Strathclyde and conquered the territory of Kyle.
The Battle of Aughrim (Irish: Cath Eachroma) was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the largely Irish Jacobite army loyal to James II and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691 ( old style , equivalent to 22 July new style), near the village of Aughrim, County Galway .
So many were injured in the battle that two days later British casualties were still waiting to be collected from the field. The chapel at Albuera was filled with wounded Frenchmen, and the dead still lay scattered across the ground. [109] In proportion to the numbers involved, the Battle of Albuera was the bloodiest of the whole Peninsular War ...
The allied army, some 27,000 [2] strong, outnumbered the French garrison by around five to one and after encircling the town on 17 March 1812, began to lay siege by preparing trenches, parallels and earthworks to protect the heavy siege artillery, work made difficult by a week of prolonged and torrential rainfalls, which also swept away bridging works that were needed to bring the heavy cannon ...
The Oxford history of the British army (Oxford UP, 2003). Cole, D. H and E. C Priestley. An outline of British military history, 1660-1936 (1936). online; Higham, John, ed. A Guide to the Sources of British Military History (1971) 654 pages excerpt; Highly detailed bibliography and discussion up to 1970. Sheppard, Eric William.