Author: Arthur Granville BradleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Owen Glyndwr and the Last Struggle for Welsh Independence
Author: Arthur Granville BradleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Owen Glyndwr and the Last Struggle for Welsh Independence
Author: Arthur Granville BradleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
OWEN GLYNDWR & THE LAST STRUGG
Author: A. G. (Arthur Granville) 1850 BradleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781372938719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Owen Glyndwr and the Last Struggle for Welsh Independence With a Brief Sketch of Welsh History (Classic Reprint)
Author: Arthur Granville BradleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330918906
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Excerpt from Owen Glyndwr and the Last Struggle for Welsh Independence With a Brief Sketch of Welsh History If this little book purported to be a biography in the ordinary sense of the word, the scantiness of purely personal detail relating to its hero might be a fair subject of criticism. But men of the Glyndwr type live in history rather by their deeds, and the deeds of those they lead and inspire. This is peculiarly the case with the last and the most celebrated among the soldier patriots of Wales. Though so little remains to tell us of the actual man himself, this very fact has thrown a certain glamour and mystery about his name even in the Principality. While numbers of well-informed Englishmen are inclined to regard him, so far as they regard him at all, as a semi-mythical hero under obligations to Shakespeare for such measure of renown and immortality as he enjoys, if the shade of Henry the Fourth could be called up as a witness it would tell a very different story. It is at any rate quite certain that for the first few years of the fifteenth century, both to England and to Wales, to friends and to foes, Owen was in very truth a sufficiently real personality. What we do know of him, apart from his work, might well suggest infinite possibilities to the novelist and the poet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Owen Glyndwr and the Last Struggle for Welsh Independence
Author: Arthur Granville BradleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Owen Glyndwr and the last struggle for Welsh independence
Author: Arthur Granville BradleyPublisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's sons
ISBN:
Category : Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
The Rise and Fall of Owain Glyn Dwr
Author: Gideon BroughPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178673110X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The subject of this compelling biography, Owain Glyn Dwr is one of the great figures of Welsh and military history. Initially a loyal subject of the king of England, he reluctantly took up arms against the Crown he had served. Once committed to rebellion, he proved surprisingly talented at leading rebel troops against a theoretically vastly superior enemy. Gideon Brough reveals that Owain was more than just a warrior: he conceived and implemented a strategy which saw his small, poorly-equipped forces repeatedly defeat Crown troops and bring down the apparatus of governance in Wales. Following these achievements, he held native parliaments and established diplomatic contact with surrounding powers. This led to a treaty with France, after the conclusion of which, he welcomed French forces to Welsh soil to campaign with the rebels. In brief, Owain erected a rebel state and won international recognition, as the book soinsightfully shows. It later reflects on how Owain's foreign support was fractured by the intrigues of exceptionally talented English diplomats at work in the French court and the subsequent creation of an environment which allowed Crown forces to concentrate on defeating the rebellion in Wales. Brough very effectively argues that, although ultimately unsuccessful, Owain emerges from the era as a gifted and honourable leader, giving the Welsh a figure commonly recalled as a hero.
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