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« Thread Started on Aug 24, 2004, 12:18pm »
battle of hastings

harolds men fomed ap in a line and made a sheild wall. the normans ran at them in hope to get thought the wall, but did not work, harolds men beat them off.
so the normans pertened to run off, the english fell for this trap and followed them, but the normans had triaed there hores to turn really fast and bit by bit they fort the brits. while the fighing was going on, the norman feared that there kning was dead so he took off his helment so they could see that he was still alive. and apparently harold got and arrow in his eye.
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and this is the bayeux tapestry,this showed all the fight in the in battle it was like 1 big cartoon strip.
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edgehill

both sides claimed they won the first big battle of the civil war.... but it was really a dreadful draw.
charles and his sone saw the battle form the hill their aides didn't let them fight (the monarch-minding meanies) the royalist army incuded all sorts even local yokels with farms tools
for the roundheads,making a charge was uphill stuggle. they kept up the attack- but kept being beaten back.
on both sides, dragoons (horsemen with muskets) got off there hores and hid in the order to ambush the enemy.
the wouded were treated in a foul fild hospittales. the weather was so cold wounds froze- which saved many from death.
foot soldiers used their pikes like giant,deadly skewers.
there were no proper uniforms- so it was easy to kill men on your own side, and mistake.
red flags meant parliament, orange one ment parliament forces.
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actium

mark antony and octavian ended up slugging it out at sea, in a shocking showdown off the coadt of actium in greece.
running away was for wimps, so no roman went in to battle with sails.. except for the big wet mark antony.
soldiers scrambuled across planks on to the enemy ships so they could fight their fellow roman face to face.
octavians ships were nippy AND nasty-their beastly bronze beaks were perfected for ramming mark antony's ships. octavian's men set light to their arrows before shooting them. now that's really "firing arrows!"
soldiers would do anything to out the fire- even pile dead bodies on to the flams.(roasted romes anyone?)
antony's ships were taller then octavians, so he had the "upper" hand when it came to catapulting.
half way throuh the battle,cleopathra turned tail and made a run for it, taking all of the treasure with her!
mark antony gave up fighting and chased after cloe in a smaller boat. what a roman wash out.
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bastille

the revolution get going when a mob attacked the bastille (say bast-eel) a giant prison in paris.
nearly 900 men and women stormed the bastille. most were poor laboures or craftsmen. it gave them a chance to grab some decent food and wine.
meny soldiers joined the revolution-and brought their big guns with them. cannon can do it.
the defenders were scared and offered to surrender if the mob promised not to hurt them. did the mob keep its word? of cours it did'nt.
cannons (on bastille) could not be moved so they just used there musket they kill about 80 attackers.
the bastille was defened by just 82 sick soldiers and 32 swiss gurds, they had one day of food supply left.
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bloody culloden

bonnie prince charlie tried to bash the brits and make his dad the king instead of george ii.this king-sized quarrel ended on a scottish moor called culloden.
the government soldiers-"redcoates" waited till the jacobites rebels got close........ then they massacred them with muskets and bayonets.
the jacobits got in to a sticky situation when they tried to charge across the boggy battleflied.
the jacobits battle plan was too simpule. they just charged at the red coats and tried to chop them up, but its did'nt really work..
they was hugly out numbered.
cannonballs from the giverment blasted the jacobites to bits. bodies (and head,arms,legs and other bits) wen flying though the air, so after a bloody battle the red coats won!
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knight fight

in 1241 the mongole rampaged into europ,only to be met by an army of polish knights at the battle of liegnitz.
befor the battle the mongoles set fire to some fleids of reeds. this sent clouds of stinky black smoke across the battle feild. the smoke scered the knoght and hid the mongoles.
some mongole circled around and attacked the knoghts from the sides and from behind. they showered the knoght with a deadly rain of arrows.
the knight used their favourite tactic- charge at the enemy at fall speed! this was brave but stupid. the mongoles ran away, but had they give up, no chance.
when the knoght chared at the mongoles they road away shooting arrows behind them as they went, the knight followed them and right into a mongole trap....
polish leader duke henry ii got wounded in the armpit. the mongoles surrounded him massacered his mates, then chopped his head off.

tyre

u may have herd abou the battle of hasting, or the battle of agingcore, soo ill tell u about some battle that u may not know.
this battle or sieg shud i say.
the city of tyre was built on a island alex attacked it he took boads full of men, and on the front of them was hammer like head which smashed into the walls.
his army built a rock path to get to the island as well, they took sieg towers with them to get oevr the walls. but alex men sieged and wiped out the city.

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