From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #8452 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, February 9 2022 Volume 14 : Number 8452 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Mass Death in TX - Could This Have Stopped It? ["Winter Survival Device" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 02:15:27 -0800 From: "Winter Survival Device" Subject: Mass Death in TX - Could This Have Stopped It? Mass Death in TX - Could This Have Stopped It? http://antennaology.co/A16vrjPVSKIrTxfKVY9zUj7meJQavnkcaHOKRQmwgzmm8hpfXg http://antennaology.co/uEWBTlYxemm7cPmFqAywU6qMhJ2s1EuvL6kH4qQ1wWjX6p9R6w ing inconclusive. Edward attempted to set up an arranged battle, but no agreement could be reached. According to some sources, during these discussions Edward received word of the fall of Berwick town and the siege of the castle; he cut short the negotiations and returned his army to England after receiving the news. According to other accounts it was not until he disembarked in England with the army on 12 November, after the negotiations with the French had failed, that he learnt of the fall of Berwick. In any event, Edward was in Newcastle in the north by Christmas Eve (24 December), where a large army was assembling, and a fleet was being prepared to supply it. The army left Newcastle on 6 January 1356. An advance force under Walter Mauny found Berwick castle was still holding out. Most of the original Scottish assault force had left, leaving a garrison in the town of 130 men, too few to adequately garrison the walls. The English laid siege to the town and the Scots could expect no relief force, according to a contemporary "by reason of the discord of the magnates". Mauny had been accompanied by 120 miners, who tunnelled towards the town walls while Mauny prepared simultaneous land and sea assaults. On 13 January Edward arrived with the main English army. The Scots offered to parley and Edward agreed to let them leave, even allowing them to take with them what plunder they could carry. English invasion Advance a black and white line drawing of Edward III Edward III Edward moved his army up the River Tweed to Roxburgh by mid-January 1356. On 20 January Balliol surrendered his nominal position as king of Scotland in favour of Edward, his overlord, in exchange for a generous pension. The modern historian Clifford Rogers has suggested this may have been a way for Edward to put pressure on David II, who Edward held captive and who was widely acknowledged as king of Scotland, to agree ransom terms. The Scots were unimpressed and on 26 January the English army set off towards Edinburgh. The size of the English army is difficult to assess, but it h ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #8452 **********************************************