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The name of Cornwall's rugby league team, the Cornish Rebels, was inspired by the Cornish Rebellion of 1497. In 2017 Peabody Trust/Family Mosaic unveiled a memorial sundial bench to commemorate the battle in Deptford. The memorial was designed and made by London mosaic artist Gary Drostle.
1068: The Battle of Exeter – the Cornish attacked the Saxon stronghold of Exeter but were eventually driven back by an Anglo-Norman army sent to mop up pockets of resistance. 1069: Brian of Brittany, lord of Cornwall, defeats the sons of Harold near the River Taw
'The first written references to Wednesfield came in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle where there is mention of a great battle at Wednesfield in which the Mercians and their allies inflicted a defeat on the Danes, leading to the effective end of their power.' [23] 927: Athelstan evicted the Cornish from Exeter and refortified the city. [24]
The Second Cornish uprising occurred in September 1497 when the pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck landed at Whitesand Bay, near Land's End, on 7 September with just 120 men in two ships. [ 1 ] Warbeck had seen the potential of the Cornish unrest in the First Cornish rebellion of 1497 even though the Cornish had been defeated at the Battle ...
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The Cornish had long regarded themselves as a distinct territory of the Kingdom of England, a belief which was reinforced by the Cornish language's central role as a expression of ethnic identity; as such, the Reformation, with its emphasis on the usage of English, was seen as a threat to the Cornish national identity.
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This was the last recorded battle between Cornwall and Wessex, and possibly resulted in the loss of Cornish independence. [31] In 875, the Annales Cambriae record that king Dungarth of Cornwall drowned, yet Alfred the Great had been able to go hunting in Cornwall a decade earlier suggesting Dungarth was likely an under-king.