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Title: Both Sides the Border
A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower

Author: G. A. Henty

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BOTH SIDES THE BORDER:

A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower

by

G. A. HENTY.

Illustrated by Ralph Peacock

Contents
Preface.
Chapter 1: A Border Hold.
Chapter 2: Across The Border.
Chapter 3: At Alnwick.
Chapter 4: An Unequal Joust.
Chapter 5: A Mission.
Chapter 6: At Dunbar.
Chapter 7: Back To Hotspur.
Chapter 8: Ludlow Castle.
Chapter 9: The Welsh Rising.
Chapter 10: A Breach Of Duty.
Chapter 11: Bad News.
Chapter 12: A Dangerous Mission.
Chapter 13: Escape.
Chapter 14: In Hiding.
Chapter 15: Another Mission To Ludlow.
Chapter 16: A Letter For The King.
Chapter 17: Knighted.
Chapter 18: Glendower.
Chapter 19: The Battle Of Homildon Hill.
Chapter 20: The Percys' Discontent.
Chapter 21: Shrewsbury.

Preface.

The four opening years of the fifteenth century were among the most
stirring in the history of England. Owen Glendower carried fire and
slaughter among the Welsh marches, captured most of the strong places
held by the English, and foiled three invasions, led by the king
himself. The northern borders were invaded by Douglas; who, after
devastating a large portion of Northumberland, Cumberland, and Durham,
was defeated and taken prisoner at the battle of Homildon, by the Earl
of Northumberland, and his son Hotspur. Then followed the strange and
unnatural coalition between the Percys, Douglas of Scotland, Glendower
of Wale