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	Battle of Watling Street (61 AD) -- Boudicca (Ancient British) vs. Suetonius Paulinus (Early Imperial Roman)
		Boudicca's army continued their advance northwest along the Watling Road to seek battle against the army of the Roman governor Seutonius Paulinus, as the war of retribution had become a war of liberation.
		For this battle, to reflect the lack of cohesion caused by the hemming in of the British forces and their apparent loss of impetuous after the Roman pila volley, British warband do not receive a +1 bonus for second rank support.
		The line of wagons and carts indicated on the battle map at the rear of the British position substitute for a camp element, but is not defended by camp followers and may not be "taken" for purpose of victory points.
	fanaticus.org /DBA/battles/watlingstreet61AD.html (1318 words)

	Watling Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Watling Street is the name given to a British ancient trackway which was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans.
		In the 9th century, Watling Street was used as the demarcation line between the Anglo-Saxon and Danish-ruled parts of England.
		A Watling Street still exists in the City of London, close to Mansion House underground station, though this is unlikely to be on the route of the original Roman road which traversed the River Thames via the first London Bridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watling_Street (784 words)

	Battle of Watling Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Watling Street took place in AD 61 between an alliance of Briton tribes and the Romans.
		Traveling north along Watling Street with Boudica and her army close behind, Paulinus chose an open field along the road surrounded by forest on three sides.
		The Roman historian Tacitus, who wrote of the battle no more than fifty years later, recorded Boudica's speech to her followers: "Nothing is safe from Roman pride and arrogance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Watling_Street (1149 words)

	Watling Street: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Watling Street was a Roman road[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] which went from Dover Dover quick summary:
		The battle of brunanburh was a west saxon victory in 937 by the army of king athelstan and his brother edmund i of englandedmund over the combined armies of...
		The battle of edington (may 878) was a battle which took place near edington in the county (england)county of wiltshire in the south-west of england...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/watling_street.htm (2238 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Later the Roman army was routed at the battle of Allia and Rome was sacked in 390BC.
		At the battle of Telemon in 225 BC a large Celtic army was trapped between two Roman forces and crushed.
		The defeat of the combined Samnite, Celtic and Etruscan alliance by the Romans in the Third Samnite War sounded the beginning of the end of the Celtic domination in mainland Europe, but it was not until 192 BC that the Roman armies conquered the last remaining independent Celtic kingdoms in Italy.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Celt (7018 words)

	Towcester Town History
		The wall was surrounded by an extensive ditch and earthworks and within it circumference were four gates, two bestriding the Watling Street, an Eastern gate, possibly now surrounded by Bury Mount, and a Western gate guarding the Roman road to Alchester.
		Watling Street was the road to Holyhead and hence Dublin, the second city of Georgian Britain.
		The latter was once of the most famous coaching inns on the Watling Street renowned for its hospitality and the standard of its cuisine.
	www.towcester-tc.gov.uk /town/towcester_history.htm (1148 words)

	Street Names
		A street in the City of Westminster that is most famous for its connection to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th century, created by British author and physician Arthur Conan Doyle.
		The narrow street named Cloth Fair, stands where the original Bartholomew Fair was held in medieval times, and runs by the side of the ancient church of St Bartholomew the Great, and some of the buildings have survived the Great Fire of London 1666, numbers 41 and 42, was built between 1597 and 1614.
		In the twelfth centuary, standing on the corner of Lombard street, was the house of the Earl of Ferrers, where his brother was murdered, and his body thrown onto the street.
	knowledgeoflondon.com /streetnames.html (2721 words)

	Battle of Medway - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Battle of Medway (or River Medway) took place in 43 in the lands of the Iron Age tribe of the Cantiaci, now the English county of Kent.
		It was an early battle in the Claudian invasion of Britain, led by Aulus Plautius.
		Possibly the Romans followed the future route of Watling Street to the battle although its role as a pre-Roman communications route is not certain.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Battle_of_Medway (676 words)

	Alfred the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The arrangement of crowning a successor as co-king, however, is well-known among Germanic tribes, such as the Swedes, and the Franks, with whom the Anglo-Saxons had close ties (see diarchy and Germanic king).
		A successful skirmish at Battle of Englefield, Berkshire (31 December 870), was followed by a severe defeat at the Battle of Reading (4 January 871), and this, four days later, by the brilliant victory of Battle of Ashdown, near Compton Beauchamp in Shrivenham Hundred.
		On 22 January 871 the English were again defeated at Basing, and on 22 March 871 at Marton, Wiltshire, the two unidentified battles having perhaps occurred in the interval.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_the_Great (3774 words)

	Potterspury \| British History Online
		The landscape history of Potterspury west of Watling Street stands somewhat apart from that of the rest of the parish, largely because it lay within the royal forest of Whittlewood, which extended across several miles of south Northamptonshire from near Syresham, through Silverstone and Whittlebury, to an eastern boundary formed by the Roman road.
		At Potterspury most of the land between the High Street and Watling Street was developed, partly by the local authority and partly by private builders; other council houses were built at the beginning of the lane leading to Furtho, at Blackwell End, and on the north side of High Street.
		On the opposite side of Watling Street from the park, the woodland alongside the road appears to have been assarted piecemeal by the two townships during the Middle Ages.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22789 (17757 words)

	The Second Battle of St Albans, 17 February 1461 \| Battlefields Trust London & South East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Second Battle of St Albans was perhaps the most complex encounter of the Wars of the Roses, with both sides using unusually sophisticated tactics for the period.
		The Second Battle of St Albans was a stunning victory for the Lancastrians and an embarrassment for Warwick, whose previously unblemished military reputation was damaged.
		Although the Lancastrian return to fight a battle in their northern heartland was logical and could have been advantageous, the failure of such an exhausting campaign must have damaged their morale and contributed to their disastrous defeat at Towton.
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	greatest historical battles - Strategy Informer Official Forums
		I voted for the battle of agincourt.But i think you should have included the batle of balaclava which was where the charge of the light brigade happened.
		Many crucial battles are not even mentioned, for example, the Frankish stand vs Islam at Poiters in 732 certainly changed history, as did the Greek wins at Marthon and Salamis over Persia.
		Yorktown was the battle that really created the USA, one of the world's most powerful countries was born out of it.
	www.strategyinformer.com /forums/showthread.php?p=10888 (506 words)

	Boudicca: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He took a stand at an unidentified location, probably in the West Midlands (West Midlands: A dialect of Middle English) somewhere along Watling Street (Watling Street: watling street was a roman road which went from dover on the southeast coast of england...
		The Britons attempted to flee, but were impeded by the presence of their own families, whom they had stationed in a ring of wagons at the edge of the battlefield, and were slaughtered.
		Battle of Watling Street (Battle of Watling Street: the battle of watling street took place in ad 61 between an alliance of briton tribes...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/boudicca (1975 words)

	Osprey - Boudica's last battle
		They then moved along Watling Street to Verulamium (next to the modern St Albans), which was inhabited by the Roman client tribe, the Catuvellauni, who had had the good sense to vacate the place.
		It follows the line of Roman Watling Street closely, but where the Romans were prepared to march straight up a hill, the stagecoach hurrying Mr Pickwick to his dinner at the Saracen's Head (then the Pomfret Arms) in Towcester could not manage the incline.
		The spot height on the summit over which Watling Street passes near here is 121 m (397 ft) and the spot height at the crossroads with the Alderton-Paulerspury road is 114 m (374 ft).
	www.ospreypublishing.com /fetchContentPage.php/cid=206 (5020 words)

	World Affairs Board - Worst battle to be in for a soldier?
		The worst battle for a soldier I say was the last battle of the british rebels in 60AD by the romans.
		The worst battle for a soldier I say was the last battle of the british rebels in 40AD by the romans.
		The Iceni took their women, children and old people to the battle sites with them so the 80,000 would have included them as the Romans, pissed off at their previous defeats and the sack and rape of Londinium, gave no quarter and went on to destroy the Iceni and their lands wherever they could.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=10398 (1709 words)

	MANDVESSEDVM
		The Watling Street settlement was fortified in the late 3rd or early 4th century.
		Twenty one pottery kilns have been found in a cluster immediately south-west of the Watling Street settlement, others have been found nearby at Hartshill and there are tile kilns at Arbury further southwards.
		A side-road off the Watling street was found to have been twice resurfaced: the original surface of 6.1m was succeeded by another, 2.4 m and finally by a road 7.9 m in width.
	www.roman-britain.org /places/manduessedum.htm (1461 words)

	Zoznam bitiek pred rokom 601 - Wikipédia
		Battle of Faesulae The Romans are defeated by the Gauls of Northern Italy.
		Battle of Sellasia Defeat of Cleomenes III of Sparta by Antigonus Doson of Macedon and the Achaean League
		Battle of Herdonia Hannibal destroys the Roman army of the praetor Gnaeus Fulvius.
	sk.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zoznam_bitiek_pred_rokom_601 (5068 words)

	NORTHUMBRIA - LoveToKnow Article on NORTHUMBRIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Shortly afterwards, in 616, he was defeated and slain in battle on the river Idle by Edwin, who was assisted by the East Anglian king Raedwald.
		In the great battle which ensued the Northumbrian army was annihilated and both kings slain (the death of Ella, according to Irish tradition, being due to the treachery of one of his followers).
		Siward held the earldom till his death in 1055, when it was given to Tostig, son of earl Godwine, and after his banishment to Morkere, son of ~lfgar, earl of Mercia.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NO/NORTHUMBRIA.htm (2241 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		Man in the street "ordinary person, non-expert" is attested from 1831.
		Street people is from 1967; street smarts is from 1972; street-credibility is from 1979.
		attaquer (16c.), from Florentine attaccare (battaglia) "join (battle)," thus the word is a doublet of attach, which was also used 15c.-17c.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=reserved&searchmode=phrase (809 words)

	MilitaryHistoryOnline.com - History Channel's Decisive Battles
		Instead of recounting these ancient battles though drawings, paintings and reenactments using actors, they spring to life in this new computer animation that allows viewers a gods-eye view of the battlefield with its massive numbers of troops, their formations, and the weapons and strategies each side employed.
		Today, this battle is best known for the story of the runner Pheidippides, who, according to legend, ran roughly twenty miles to Athens with the news of victory and so inspired the Olympic event.
		DECISIVE BATTLES was produced for The History Channel by David Paradine Television, Inc. Executive Producers are Sir David Frost and John M. Florescu.
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	Atherstone: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) near the site of modern day Atherstone, and the Roman road, the Watling Street (Watling Street: watling street was a roman road which went from dover on the southeast coast of england...
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) was defeated at the Battle of Watling Street (Battle of Watling Street: the battle of watling street took place in ad 61 between an alliance of briton tribes...
		Atherstone was once an important hat (hat: Headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim) ting town, and became well known for its felt (felt: A fabric made of compressed matted animal fibers) hats.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/atherstone (463 words)

	London - Inner General Interest: General Interest in London - Inner, England
		Queen Boudica was defeated in the Battle of Watling Street, her massive army decimated by a superior, though much smaller, Roman force.
		As is the case with Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
		His body was paraded through the streets, whipped, and buried at the crossroads of Cannon and Cable Streets (to confuse his evil spirit) with a stake through its heart (to keep his evil soul in its grave).
	www.innerlondon.worldweb.com /FeaturesReviews/GeneralInterest/8-146102.html (5182 words)

	Watling Street - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Watling Street is the name given to a British ancient trackway which was first used by the Celts mainly between Canterbury and St Albans.
		The last section of the long Inter II route from Hadrian's Wall travelled through Viroconium (now Wroxeter in Shropshire), then through St Albans to Rutupiae (now Richborough) on the southeast coast of England.
		The road was re-paved in the early 19th century by Thomas Telford who brought it back into use as a turnpike road for use by mail coaches bringing mail to and from Ireland, his road being extended to the port of Holyhead on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Watling_Street (756 words)

	Athelstan articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Brunanburh, battle of BRUNANBURH, BATTLE OF [Brunanburh, battle of], AD 937, a victory won by Athelstan, king of the English, over a coalition of Irish, Scots, and Britons (or Welsh) of Strathclyde.
		The battle is celebrated in a poem in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
		Haakon I HAAKON I [Haakon I] (Haakon the Good), c.915-961, king of Norway (c.935-961), son of Harold I. He was brought up as a Christian at the court of King Athelstan in England.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/00863.html (403 words)

	Chariot
		The critical invention that allowed the construction of light, horse-drawn chariots for use in battle was the spoked wheel.
		The chariot became obsolete during the Age of the Warring States; the main reasons were the invention of the crossbow and the adaptation of nomadic cavalry (mounted archery), which was more effective.
		The Battle of Kadesh in 1299 BC is likely to have been the largest chariot battle ever fought, in which some five thousand chariots were involved.
	articles.gourt.com /en/chariot (3298 words)

	ROMAN DERE STREET OVER THE RIVER TWEED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The 'Watling Street' of Roy (1774/1793) follows the medieval and recent road to the west of Eildon village.
		The aiming point of Roman Dere Street in its 18km length from the Cheviot Hills to the Bowden Burn, only 3km short of Trimontium fort, is again the Eildon Hills; the east slope of Hill North.
		If the Malcolm concerned was Malcolm 11 (King of Scots, 1005-1034), he of the Battle of Carham, 1018AD, that sealed the fate of the kingdom of Northumbria, the road may well date to the 11th century or earlier, and may mark the line of Northumbrian Dere Street.
	www.trimontium.freeserve.co.uk /dere.html (9729 words)

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