Battle of Shrewsbury
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The Battle of Shrewsbury was fought on 21 July 1403, waged between an army led by the Lancastrian King Henry IV and a rebel army led by Henry "Harry Hotspur" Percy from Northumberland. The battle, the
Death of Henry "Harry Hotspur" Percy, from a 1910 illustration by Richard Caton Woodville Jr.
Battle of Shrewsbury, an illustration from Thomas Pennant's 'A tour in Wales', 1781
Henry V of England
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Henry V, also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1413 until his death in 1422. His victory at Agincourt in 1415 and his conquest of Normandy gav
Battle of Shrewsbury
…way to Shrewsbury, he set his troops in motion on July 20 and reached Shrewsbury, 32 miles away, that very same day, where he was awaited by his son Henry of Monmouth. At the same time, Hotspur had marched south from Chester. Since the king’s rapid arrival prevented him from entering Shrewsbury, he was forced to…
Henry as Prince of Wales in the Regiment of Princes, c.1413 (MS Arundel 38)
Miniature of Henry's father, Henry IV, in the records of the Duchy of Lancaster, c.1402
Henry as Prince of Wales tries on his father's crown in a scene from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2, engraving after Josiah Boydell, 1795
The Battle of Agincourt as depicted in Thomas Walsingham's St Albans Chronicle, c.1422