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**UPDATED** WELSH BATTLES, WARS AND REBELLIONS FROM 616 to 1409

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WELSH WARS, BATTLES AND  REBELLIONS FROM 616 TO 1409. ****IF YOU FIND MISTAKES LET ME KNOW. ****   There is an article on wiki called 'list of anglo Welsh wars" it doesn't cover most of the conflicts, battles, wars that involve the Welsh so iv always intended on adding to it, but for now, I decided to put as many as I can find in one place.  All I'm doing (doing because iv not finished) is searching through the lives of the Welsh princes, primary sources, secondary sources, various articles and adding whatever I can find and trust me, the list as easily five or six times bigger than the wiki list so far. There are many medieval writers who describe the Welsh as brave and vicious fighters who dont often stick by the rules of war. They would often come out of nowhere and attack an invading army and disappear before the invaders knew what hit them. quote from Itinerarium Cambriae 1191 "My Lord King, this nation may now be harassed, ...
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Why isn't Wales considered by everyone to be England's first colony?

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Why isn't Wales considered by everyone to be England's first colony? Anything that isn't written by the Welsh themselves completely ignore Wales when this question is raised. The conquest of Wales and eventual occupation exceeds every condition or definition of a colony, Wales remained so up until gaining devolution in 1998.   A colony is  a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country. Since before the conquest we saw areas of Wales being colonised by Normans , they removed the native Welsh from their lands, built castles and towns and moved in English and Flemming, After Llywelyn's first war, Longshanks started doing the same and by 1282 he went into overdrive, for example , around Denbigh 10,000 acres was taken from the natives and given to English settlers, then we have Conwy, Caernarfon among others that the Welsh were excluded from, this happened in every corner of Wales.  In the 1295 ...
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people and events 11th 12th

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  Gruffudd ap Cynan  1055 – 1137 His father was  Prince, Cynan ap Iago Gruffudd's mother was Ragnailt ingen Amlaíb, a granddaughter of King Sigtrygg Silkbeard and a member of the Hiberno-Norse Uí Ímair dynasty. (Had a number of children, one went onto be a very successful. King Owain Gwynedd (c. 1100 – 1170) and the other Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd (1100 – 1136) who married Gruffydd ap Rhys, Prince of Deheubarth who was the son of her fathers ally Rhys ap Tewdwr .)  He three times gained the throne of Gwynedd and then lost it again, before regaining it once more in 1099 and this time keeping power until his death born in the Hiberno-Norse Kingdom of Dublin and reared near Swords, County Dublin in Ireland. ‘’Gruffudd received considerable help from Ireland, from the Hiberno-Norse at Dublin, the Isles and Wexford and from Muircheartach Ua Briain, because he was also descendant through his mother from Brian Boru, High King of Ireland’’ Gruffudd first attempted to take ove...
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