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  Battles and Rebellions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Richard III was killed in the battle and Henry Tudor succeeded as Henry VII.
Battle between James IV of Scotland and Henry VIII of England.
The rebellion was defeated at the Battle of Dussindale on 27 August.
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 Battle of Deptford Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Deptford Bridge (or Blackheath) was the culminating event of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497.
After fighting a minor battle near Guildford, Surrey, they were hopeful of gaining further support from people in Kent (the focus of Jack Cade's rebellion of 1450), but despite rallying at Cade's meeting place at nearby Blackheath were disappointed.
Much of the battle took place on the eastern side of the Ravensbourne, on the hillside up to the plateau of Blackheath - as a result, it is sometimes called the 'Battle of Blackheath'.
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 The Battle of Deptford Bridge in 1497
An Gof and the Cornish rebels in Deptford, 1497
Thus, Deptford Bridge is a major historical site in Deptford - and one whose historical significance has been almost completely ignored by the London Borough of Lewisham - it is, after all, the only place in the Borough where a major battle has been fought.
One major source l have used for the Battle of Deptford Bridge is An Anwan Ha'n Gurun (The Anvil and The Crown), by Cornish language historian, Brian Webb.(3) He describes how the rebellion struck a chord among the impoverished peasants in Cornwall and England.
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 Learn more about History of England in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The defeat of King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 at the hands of William of Normandy, later styled William I of England and the subsequent Norman takeover of Saxon England led to a sea-change in the history of the small, isolated, island state.
The Wars of the Roses culminated in the eventual victory of the relatively unknown Henry Tudor, Henry VII, at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, where the Yorkist Richard III was slain, and the succession of the Lancastrian House was ultimately assured.
The first, Lambert Simnel, was defeated at the Battle of Stoke (the last time an English King fought someone claiming the Crown) and the second, Perkin Warbeck, was hanged in 1499 after plaguing the King for a decade.
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 Deptford Bridge DLR station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deptford Bridge DLR station is a station on the Docklands Light Railway in Deptford, south-east London.
The station is located between Greenwich and Elverson Road stations, and is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 2 and Zone 3.
It was the site of a major battle, the Battle of Deptford Bridge which was the culminating event of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497.
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 June 17 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining.
1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1876 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud - 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
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 Battle of Deptford Bridge: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Battle of Deptford Bridge was the culminating event of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 Cornish Rebellion of 1497 quick summary:
Figures from the battle vary though they generally place the losses of Daubeney's forces within single figures next to over 1000 Cornishmen.
London bridge is a bridge over the river thames, between the city of london and southwark....
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For upon old London Bridge, the first stone bridge, built in the end of the twelfth century, there stood in the very midst of it a chapel of marvellous beauty with a crypt, from which by a flight of steps one might reach the river, dedicated in honour of St Thomas Becket.
It is at Deptford, as I say, that we begin to leave the mean streets, for at the cross-roads we turn up Blackheath Hill, and though this is not in all probability the ancient way, it is as near it as modern conditions have allowed us.
This bridge stood higher up the river than that of to-day, nearer indeed to the Castle, and as at its western end there was a chapel, so at its eastern under the Castle, John de Cobham founded, in Chaucer's time, in 1399, a Chantry for all Christian souls, of which some ruins remain.
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 Greenwich Guide - Greenwich Day by Day - June
The Marquis of Montcalm was a direct descendant of Wolfe's adversary at the Battle of Quebec on the Heights of Abraham.
The statue, which commemorates Tsar Peter's visit to Deptford in 1698, (see: Jun 9) was unveiled by Prince Michael of Kent who is Patron of the Peter the Great Educational Trust which offers opportunities to young people in deprived areas.
In Deptford he stayed at the home of John Evelyn, leaving England in April 1698, and carrying with him English engineers, artificers, surgeons, artillerymen and such to the number of 500 men.
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 Old Bridge wrestling team reloading with fresh talent By Warren Rappleyea Staff Writer
JV coach Bryan Garnett (entering his 16th year at Old Bridge) was selected as the GMC Assistant Coach of the Year, and led his team to titles in the Icebreaker, Woodbridge Holiday and Middlesex County tournaments.
They are expected to battle with many of the same schools as last year for conference supremacy, and will have several wrestlers competing well into the post season.
Old Bridge was scheduled to open the season on Tuesday at Piscataway and will travel back to Southern for a dual meet on Saturday.
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 The History of Deptford Bridge
And from that time unto the morrow 8 of the bell they were ever fighting upon London Bridge, and many a man was slain and cast into the Thames.
And the condemned men were drawn, hanged, and quartered, but they were pardoned to be buried, both the quarters of their bodies and their heads withal.
And at Rochester nine men were beheaded at the same time and their heads were sent unto London by the king's commandment, and set upon London Bridge all at one time; and twelve heads at another time were brought unto London and set up under the same form as it was commanded by the king.
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 Netherlands - Around Amsterdam - North
The houses are gained by little bridges which, with various other idiosyncrasies, help to make Broek a delight to children.
If a company of children were to be allowed to manage a small republic entirely alone, the whimsical millionaire who fathered the project might do worse than buy up this village for the experiment.
A single row of trees runs down each of its long streets, and on the other side of each are illimitable fields intersected by ditches which on a cloudless afternoon might be strips of the bluest ribbon.
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 Michael An Gof, the Cornish Blacksmith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A fuller description of their march and battle is given in the section on Thomas Flamank.
The Battle of Deptford Bridge was brief, 200 Cornishmen died.
An Gof fled to Greenwich after the battle, but was captured and sent to the Tower of London.
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 Gloucester County Historical Sites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
His forty-minute trip by balloon from Philadelphia to Deptford Township was the actual beginning of the aero-space age in our hemisphere.
This Colonial manor is the oldest brick house in the county.
During the battle of Red Bank in 1777, the building was used as a hospital by the Hessians.
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 Deptford History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Dover Castle pub on Deptord Broadway (destroyed by an unexplained explosion in 1991) was once a large 14th century pilgrim's inn, the Christopher.
By the Tudor period Deptford was the last coach stage out of London and very vulnerable to highwaymen and footpads.
saw four rebel armies pour across its ancient bridge - the Peasant's Revolt (1381), Jack Cade and the Men of Kent (1450), the 2,000 Cornish rebels who were slain on Deptford Bridge (1497) and Thomas Wyatt's anti-Catholic mob (1554).
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 1499 Definition / 1499 Research
July 22July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining.
Events 1400-1899 1499 - Battle of Dornach - The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I. 1587 - Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
July 28 - First Battle of Lepanto - The Turkish navy wins a decisive victory over the Venetians.
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 WHKMLA : Cornwall Rebellion 1497
The rebels failed to find the support of the men of Kent, and were defeated in the Battle of Deptford Bridge, by a force of 10,000 well-armed men under Lord Daubeney which had been assembled to march on the Scots.
After the defeat at Deptford Bridge, Perkin Warbeck - an adventurer (claiming to be Richard, Duke of York, contesting the English throne) who had attempted several invasions of England respectively rebellions in Ireland against England, landed in Cornwall and raised an army of c.
An Gof and the Cornish rebels in Deptford, 1497, from Flame
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 The Battle of Britain - Home Page
Poplar: A direct hit was registered on the District railway at Foot Bridge.
Deptford: Bombs fell through SR Arch at Filwood Street causing major damage.
GWR bridge adjacent to Central London Railway Bridge reported to be unsafe.
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 Morris Creek National Battlefield Park CULTURAL OVERVIEW
Lillington immediately built a low earthwork on the east side, on a slight rise overlooking the bridge and its approach from the west (Image 3).
The Patriots replaced the bridge planks, began a pursuit (Image 7), eventually rounded up suspected Loyalists, disarmed all the Highlanders and Regulators, and captured valuable spoils, including 1,500 rifles, 350 guns and shot-bags, 150 swords and dirks, and 15,000 British pounds sterling (Hatch 1969:41-45).
The archeological remains of the battle and a number of monuments that had been erected by the Moores Creek Monumental Association in the early part of the twentieth-century were classified as "Historic Structures" in the National Register Bulletin 16A (NPS 1991:15).
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 Communities - CourierPostOnline
DEPTFORD - Nature walk, 1 p.m., enter Old Pine Farm Natural Lands Trust at the end of Rankin Street, off Good Intent Road.
DEPTFORD - Crafters needed for the Lions Flight For Sight Balloon Festival, June 24 to 26, Gloucester County College, Tanyard Road, Sewell.
DEPTFORD - Laws of Separation and Divorce workshop, 7 to 9 p.m.
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More fortunate than three of his fellow students, who were executed for their share in this affair, Defoe escaped the hue and cry that followed the battle of Sedgemoor, and after some months' concealment set up as a wholesale merchant in Cornhill.
That Defoe, in spite of these defects, should succeed in interesting us in his "Plague," is a remarkable tribute to his peculiar ability as described in the preceding paragraph.
So hypochondriac fancies represent Ships, armies, battles in the firmament; Till steady eyes the exhalations solve, And all to its first matter, cloud, resolve.
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 History of Carrabelle and Franklin County, Florida
Dog Island and St. Vincent Island were of strategic importance to the Union Navy during the Civil War, and they were used as staging points for the blockade of the Port of Apalachicola.
On 20 February 1864, Union Forces were defeated by the Confederates at the Battle of Ocean Pond (called Olustee by the Union) near Lake City.
The Bridge over the Carrabelle River was named the Tilly Miller Bridge in her honor.
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 English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A latter battle at Edgehill was inconclusive, but regarded by the Royalists as a victory.
Playing a minor part in the battle on the other side was a cavalry troop raised by a country gentleman, evangelical puritan, and former Member of Parliament named Oliver Cromwell.
The defeat at the Battle of Lostwithiel in Cornwall, however, was a serious reverse for Parliament in the south-west of England.
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 Further: Strange Attractor and beyond: Brockley Jacking
A possible prehistory of the landscape of Brockley and Deptford Bridge from the Iron age to the Middle ages, "common greene" to Brockley Common.
The local author of "Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion" remembers, twenty years on, the events of the Battle of the Beanfield, the bloody end of the Stonehenge Free Festival.
Kate Waterfield discusses and performs pieces from the Runa Megin; an evocative exploration of the musical possibilities of ancient runes is rich with echoes of an Eastern European folk heritage and an experimental "extended technique" vocal approach.
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CLIFFORD WALMSLEY was born 8 Mar 1875 in a sod house in Reno Co., Kansas.
LESLIE ANDERSON RAMBO was born 5 Sep 1891 in Deptford, New Jersey, and on 15 Sep 1928, she married FREDERICK GECKLE.(569) 6513465.
ETTA READING RAMBO was born in Deptford, New Jersey on 18 Mar 1895.(569) On 8 Nov 1922, she married HERMAN CHIRSTOPHER DEMME.
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He was appointed to the command of U-66 on 21 Jan 41 & was he commissioning CO. He compiled a record of 16 ships sunk for a total of 106,200 tons & 1 ship damaged for a further 12,502 tons, making him the 27th-highest scoring ‘ace’.
Egan Marine operates a small fleet of barges and towboats in Lemont, Ill. The Coast Guard Captain of the Port closed the Chicago Sanitary and Ship canal between South Harlem Avenue Bridge and the South Pulaski Road Bridge to all vessel traffic.
The canal was reopened as soon as it had been determined that it is safe for vessel traffic and that opening the waterway will not adversely affect the ongoing clean up and salvage operation.
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 Sequatchie Valley Railroad
These include Deptford (Richard City), South Pittsburg, Kimball, Jasper, Victoria, Sequatchie, Whitwell, Dunlap, College Station, Lee's and Pikeville.
These highways opened up a quicker and easier route into the Sequatchie Valley for tractor-trailers and coal trucks, which were much less expensive for transporting coal and other products in and out of the Sequatchie Valley.
All along the left (west) side of the highway while driving up the valley can be seen long stretches of the old rail-bed and in some places, the old bridges, piers or culverts.
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 A Childs History of England - CHAPTER XXVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Whether he pardoned the remainder because they were poor, I do not know; but it is only too probable that he refused to pardon one famous nobleman against whom the same Clifford soon afterwards informed separately, because he was rich.
The worst consequence of this attempt was, that a rising took place among the people of Cornwall, who considered themselves too heavily taxed to meet the charges of the expected war.
These were increased to six thousand by the time of his arrival in Exeter; but, there the people made a stout resistance, and he went on to Taunton, where he came in sight of the King's army.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/youth/history/AChildsHistoryofEngland/chap26.html   (3185 words)

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