Both Sides the Border, a Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
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England. Owen Glendower carried fire and slaughter among theW elsh marches, captured most of the strong places held by theE nglish, and foiled three invasions led by the king himself. The northern borders were invaded by Douglas, who, after devastating a large portion of Northumberland, Cumberland, and Durham, was defeated and taken prisoner at the battle of Homildon by theE arl of Northumberland ...
MoreEngland. Owen Glendower carried fire and slaughter among theW elsh marches, captured most of the strong places held by theE nglish, and foiled three invasions led by the king himself. The northern borders were invaded by Douglas, who, after devastating a large portion of Northumberland, Cumberland, and Durham, was defeated and taken prisoner at the battle of Homildon by theE arl of Northumberland and his son Hotspur. Then followed the strange and unnatural coalition between the Percys, Douglas of Scotland, Glendower of Wales, andS irE dmund Mortimer a coalition that would assuredly have overthrown the king, erected the young Earl of March as a puppet monarch under the tutelage of the Percys, and secured the independence of Wales, had the royal forces arrived one day later atS hrewsbury, and so allowed the confederate armies to unite. King Henry svictory there, entailing the death of Hotspur and the capture of Douglas, put an end to this formidable insurrection; for although theE arl of Northumberland twice subsequently raised the banner of revolt, these risings were easily crushed; while Glendower spower waned, and order, never again to be broken, was at length restored in Wales. The continual state of unrest and chronic warfare between the inhabitants of both sides of the border was full of adventures as stirring and romanticas that in which the hero of the story took part. G. A. HENTY.
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