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Title: The London & North-Western Railway
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Eyre-Todd, George, 1862-1937
Subjects: London and North-Western Railway Railroads -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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this country were fought merelyto satisfy the ambitions and personal purposes ofnobles and kings. While a few of the struggles mayhave been nothing better than this, by far the greaternumber had very different and more serious cause.People fought then, as they might fight now, to redresstheir wrongs and upset an unjust government thatwas threatening them with destruction and drivingthem to despair. The London and North-WesternRailway to-day passes by several of these old battle-fields where men fought out their differences, and aninteresting book might be written on the reasons forthese conflicts, as well as the results which flowed fromthem. Meanwhile the battle-fields themselves areL. & N.W. 49 7 London and North Western Railway interesting for the blows that were struck and thebravery that was shown on both sides of the field. Shrewsbury to-day is one of the most picturesquetowns in England. It still remains a town, for whenone of the English kings offered to make it a city the
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Market Hall, Shrewsbury. people refused, declaring that they preferred to remainthe first of towns rather than become the last of cities.Hence their soubriquet of Proud Salopians, andthe name of their principal street, Pride Hill. Theyhave real reason for pride, however, in the beautiful,quaint, old-world nooks and buildings of their town,and the strange and stirring memories that belong toit. Among these memories not least is that of thegreat battle fought under its walls in 1403. Three Famous Battle-Fields King Richard II. had not long been deposed by hiscousin of Lancaster, Henry IV., when the Welshchiefs thought they saw their chance to throw off theEnglish yoke, and under Owen Glendower, of therace of their ancient princes, swept the Englishgarrisons from their castles. Glendower followed theplan pursued by the Scots king, Robert the Bruce,eighty years before. When his enemies invaded thecountry they found it a wilderness, with no one tooppose them, but as they retreated, starvin

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