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Built by. Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Tenshu. Sunomata Castle (墨俣城, Sunomata-jō) is a Japanese castle in Ōgaki in Gifu Prefecture at the confluence of the Sai and Nagara rivers. It is also called the Sunomata Ichiya Castle (墨俣一夜城), due to the legend that it was built in one night. The castle was constructed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, at ...
Castle of Almourol [1] Castelo Branco [1] Castle of Idanha [1] Castle of Monsanto [1] Castle of Penha Garcia [1] Castle of Pombal [2] Castle of Soure - received and reconstructed in March 1128, was the first castle of the Knights Templar. [16] Old town of Tomar, including the Castle, the Convent of the Order of Christ and the Church of Santa ...
Leeds Castle, England. Raglan Castle, Wales. Balmoral Castle, Scotland. Lismore Castle, Ireland. Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in Great Britain and Ireland since their introduction following the Norman invasion of England in 1066. Although a small number of castles had been built in England in the 1050s ...
12,000 infantry. 4000 border horsemen. Casualties and losses. over 400. 40. The Burning of Edinburgh in 1544 by an English army was the first major action of the war of the Rough Wooing. The Provost of Edinburgh was compelled to allow the English to sack Leith and Edinburgh, and the city was burnt on 7 May.
Nottingham Castle is a Stuart Restoration -era ducal mansion in Nottingham, England, built on the site of a Norman castle built starting in 1068, and added to extensively through the medieval period, when it was an important royal fortress and occasional royal residence. In decline by the 16th century, the original castle, except for its walls ...
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 88 (354). Oates, Jonathan (2003). "The Last Siege on English Soil; Carlisle, December 1745". Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. New Series, volume III. Pickard, Steve. "York Castle and the 1745 Rebellion". York Museum Trust
The mayor and his attendants went to Brampton, and delivered the keys of the city to the prince. The Duke found 1,000 stand of arms in the castle, besides those of the militia. He also found 200 good horses in the city, and a large quantity of valuable effects in the castle, which had been lodged there by the gentry of the neighbourhood for safety.
The Battle of the Boyne ( Irish: Cath na Bóinne IPA: [ˈkah n̪ˠə ˈbˠoːn̠ʲə]) took place in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II, and those of King William III who, with his wife Queen Mary II (his cousin and James's daughter), had acceded to the Crowns of England and Scotland [ b] in 1689. The battle was fought across ...