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| Site of the | Battle of Otterburn | Edward Lawson Esq | About 20 chains NE | This was the scene of the celebrated and well | ||
| Battle of Otterburn | Battle of Otterburn | Mr Pattison | of Greenchesters | contested Battle of Otterburn fought on the night | ||
| Fought A.D.1388 | Battle of Otterburn | Mr Snaith | of the 19th and morning of the 20th August 1388 between | |||
| (site of) | Whites History of the Battle of Otterburn | two Armies composed of English and Scotch border | ||||
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| generally termed Hotspur and the |
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| famed War |
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| on the high ground above Greenchesters. Sir Henry Percy then Warden of the | ||||||
| Marches whose duty it was to repel such inroads collected an Army of upwards | ||||||
| eight thousand in order to arrest the progress of the scots, and on receiving | ||||||
| information of the strength and position of the enemy commenced th |
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| from Newcastle in the afternoon of the 19th August and reached the strong | ||||||
| entrenched camp of the enemy a little after sunset the same evening | ||||||
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| respective chiefs the engagement thus commenced soon became general and | ||||||
| continued nearly the whole of the night with the most determined valour on | ||||||
| both sides, but the |
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| ground from time to time and when the dawn of the following morning | ||||||
| approached they were totally discomfitted and a general Route [sic] was the consequence. | ||||||
| In this severely contested Battle on the side of the English there was left dead on | ||||||
| the field and in the pursuit one thousand eight hundred and forty men. With | ||||||
| Sir Henry and Sir Ralph Percy and a very great quantity taken prisoners | ||||||
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| and more than two hundred taken prisoner". | ||||||
| Edw. Gillespie Sapper Royal Engineers | ||||||
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