This place is famous for a great battle fought here, on the 15th of November 655. Penda, King of the Mercians, bore a constant enmity to the Northumbrians, and very often made ravages in their dominions, without any regard to treaties. His army appeared more than sufficient to execute his cruel resolution, being thirty times the number of that of Oswy. In this dreadful dilemma, the devoted Northumbrians, seeing no alternative but that of conquest or death, received the charge of the Mercians with an heroic firmness, scarcely to be equalled in the annals of war. Oswy, and his son, Alkfryd, at the head of their troops, charged like men in despair.
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