Battle of Shrewsbury
The Battle of Shrewsbury was fought on 21 July 1403, waged between an army led by the Lancastrian King Henry IV and a rebel army led by Henry "Harry Hotspur" Percy from Northumberland. The battle, the first in which English archers fought each other on English soil, reaffirmed the effectiveness of the longbow and ended the Percy challenge to King Henry IV of England.
| Battle of Shrewsbury | |||||||
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| Part of the Glyndŵr Rising | |||||||
Death of Henry "Harry Hotspur" Percy, from a 1910 illustration by Richard Caton Woodville Jr. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Kingdom of England |
House of Percy Principality of Wales Kingdom of Scotland | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Henry IV Henry, Prince of Wales (WIA) |
Henry "Hotspur" Percy † Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas (POW) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 14,000 | <14,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 3,000+ | 2,000+ | ||||||
Part of the fighting is believed to have taken place at what is now Battlefield, Shropshire, England, three miles (5 km) north of the centre of Shrewsbury. It is marked today by Battlefield Church and Battlefield Heritage Park.
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