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violent Wales

Some violent events in the violent history of Wales, i need more, can anyone help me?  Like it or not, you can't deny it, Wales is a conquered nation. what is often ignored is how brutal this conquest was. people were booted off their lands, English towns were built and populated with English people, the Welsh people were excluded from these places and forced into famine and death, It is these ENGLISH towns that were atacked by Owain Glyndwr, some people twist it and say he attacked Welsh towns, they wasnt Welsh towns at the time. Below are the words written by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in a letter to the English 2 months before he was killed in 1282. You can't get a more primary source than this; it gives you an idea of how Welsh people were treated. It is time the Welsh people of today were made aware of these things because, after all, those treated like this were Welsh people, too, and some of you are descended from them. what evils have been wrought upon us by the English, how...

Dates of invasions of wales

I often get Scottish and Irish folks ask me ''why didn't the Welsh fight back like they did '' The Welsh did fight back, it just you don't do any research. :) Keep these points in your mind as well. Wales is right next to England's most powerful and populated areas in the middle ages. Wales had a population of no more than 300,000 while Normans/English/Saxons had up to 3 million. If either of those countries were to swap locations with Wales, they would have lost their independence as well. Army's of over 30,000 were sent into Wales, if they were such a pushover this wouldn't have been seen as worth the hassle. Some of these large armies faced humiliating defeats in Wales, defeats that the Scots wouldn't stop shouting about (and even make movies about) These are the dates Wales was invaded. I will have missed loads. S = SAXONS V = VIKINGS N = NORMANS E = ENGLISH S 620 S 658 S 720 S 728 S 769 S 796 S 798 S 816 S 817 S 818 S 820 S 830 S 853 S 865 S...