The Weardale campaign occurred during July and August 1327. In 1326,
while England was at war with Scotland, the English king Edward II was
deposed by his wife, Isabella, and her lover, Roger Mortimer. Seeing
opposition to the Scots as a way of legitimising their position,
Isabella and Mortimer prepared a large army to oppose them, accompanied
by the newly crowned Edward III. After two weeks of poor supplies and
bad weather the English confronted the Scots when the latter
deliberately gave away their position. The Scots occupied unassailable
positions and the English declined to attack them. A Scottish force
raided the English camp, penetrating as far as the royal pavilion. The
English believed that they were starving out the surrounded Scots, but
on the night of 6 August the Scots escaped and marched back to
Scotland. The campaign was ruinously expensive for the English. Isabella
and Mortimer were forced to negotiate, and in 1328 a peace treaty
recognising Scottish sovereignty was signed.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weardale_campaign>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1740:
A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch East
Indies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1740_Batavia_massacre>
1936:
Dod Orsborne, captain of the Girl Pat was convicted and
imprisoned of its theft, having caused a media sensation when it went
missing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Pat>
1966:
With their album The Supremes A' Go-Go, the Supremes became the
first all-female group to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Supremes>
1987:
John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_in_China>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
milecastle:
One of a series of small rectangular fortifications, spaced roughly one
Roman mile apart, built during the period of the Roman Empire.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/milecastle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the
law is learning to tolerate fools.
--Doris Lessing
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Doris_Lessing>
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