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In 1306, the Scottish rebel under the leadership of Robert Bruce, soon to be Robert I of Scotland. By 1314, Bruce commands virtually all of Scotland and is poised to capture Stirling Castle, one of few remaining English strong points in Scotland. Edward II of England leads an army north to relieve the Stirling garrison, but is blocked by Bruce’s army along the Bannock Burn. The heavy cavalry of the English vanguard attempt to outflank the Scots but are repulsed; the repulse of their knights and defeat of a famed English knight in a duel against Bruce demoralize the English in the first day of combat. Bruce decides to attack the next day when he learns Edward is bivouacking his army on soggy ground, hemmed in between the Bannock Burn and Pelstream rivers, both at high tide.. . Jun 14-18, 1815. Strategic Context. Napoleon Bonaparte returns to France in February 1815, assimilating every French soldier he meets into his growing army. Napoleon reaches Paris in March and offers peace to the opposing Allied coalition – but they choose war. Napoleon appoints his most talented and trusted subordinate, Louis Davout, as his minister of war and begins rebuilding an army. By June, Napoleon is able to field forces numbering over 230,000 against Allied forces of over 850,000 although the latter are dispersed and under various commands. Napoleon deploys small, defensive armies to guard the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Rhine River against the Spanish, Italian, and Austrian armies respectively, and concentrates a large, offensive army in Belgium against the Anglo-Dutch and Prussian armies; the Russian army meanwhile marches slowly but steadily across Europe. Napoleon plans to destroy the Anglo-Dutch and Prussian armies before the other Allied armies can affect the situation. The French situation is not hopeless; Britain’s military is still dispersed after its war with the United States, Belgians, Germans and Poles are relatively anti-Allies while a decisive victory may force others to switch sides. Allied commander-in-chief Karl Phillipp Schwarzenberg plans an advance towards Paris by all armies on June 27 but Napoleon strikes two weeks earlier.. . [?], 326 BC. Strategic Context. Alexander the Great’s ambition drags himself and his army deeper into India after conquering the Persian Empire; now a vast array of powerful kingdoms stand before him. One such kingdom ruled by King Taxiles equips the Macedonians with equipment and supplies in exchange for help in subduing his rival, Pauravan King Porus. The Pauravan Empire fields an army that is more than a match for the Macedonians.. . September, 52 BC. Strategic Context. Julius Caesar considers Gaul secure until it revolts under the leadership of Vercingetorix, an Arverni chieftain. Vercingetorix does not rely on an impulsive, barbarian offensive strategy as Caesar expects. Instead, the Gauls do not allow a decisive battle to take place for fear it will be a decisive defeat, and fight a partisan war by retreating and destroying everything behind them. Caesar grows impatient, especially after the failed assault against the fortress of Gergovia and the inconclusive skirmish at the Vingeanne. Vercingetorix retires to Alesia and Caesar follows; it appears Vercingetorix, pressured by his allies, is finally giving battle. . . January 17, 1781. Strategic Context. Britain’s American colonies revolt in 1775, provoking a large military response from Britain. The overall strategic situation of the American Revolutionary War turns decidedly in the American favour as the Americans win the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 and France declares war on Britain in 1778. However, the southern theater is yet to be won or lost. In December 1780, both American and British sides are reinforced near Charlotte; Nathaniel Greene now leads 3,000 Americans against Charles Cornwallis’ 4,000 British. Greene takes the offensive by sending Daniel Morgan with roughly 1,000 men in a western turning maneuver and taking the remainder to a camp near Charleston. Cornwallis opts to try and destroy both forces simultaneously by sending Banastre Tarleton with 1,100 men against Morgan and Alexander Leslie with the rest to contain Greene. Tarleton reaches Morgan’s position and attacks as part of the plan’s first stage.. . June 28, 1709. Strategic Context. Charles XII of Sweden easily defeats the Russians at the Battle of Narva in 1700 at the outset of the Great Northern War, which involves all northern European powers at some point. Charles thus expects a quick victory when he invades Russia in winter 1707. However, he fails to bring Peter the Great’s revitalized army to a decisive battle in 1708. Rather than withdraw from the Smolensk river gate to a firm winter base, Charles opts to march south into the Ukraine to join with Mazeppa’s Cossacks who promise supplies and a 30,000 cavalry contingent. However, Peter learns of and then crushes the Cossack revolt, stranding Charles’ army in the Ukraine, now even further from his base in Poland and goal of Moscow. Charles advances east in 1709 and besieges Poltava as Peter concentrates his massive army along the Vorskla River. On June 17, Charles is struck by a bullet in the leg and is no longer able to walk. When Peter learns of this, he shifts his camp from the relatively safe Petrovka ford closer to the Swedish army; he fortifies his camp and begins building a system of redoubts in the hopes of an advantageous general engagement. Despite his injury, Charles resolves to attack, passing tactical command to Karl Rehnskjold.. . August 15-20, 636. Strategic Context. Beginning in 622, Emperor Heraclius revitalizes the Byzantine Empire and conquers the Fertile Crescent of modern Palestine, Iran, Iraq and Syria from the empire’s longtime foes, the Sassanids. A decade later, Khald ibn al-Walid leads a dramatic invasion of these newly conquered lands. He destroys a Byzantine army and captures Damascus in 635 before another army can be hastily assembled, led by Vahan, to chase the Rashiduns out. Now the Rashiduns make their stand south of Damascus with their backs to the Arabian Desert; they are united by purpose and know that this could be their final chance to break out of the desert.. [?], 530. Strategic Context. After a long period of peace, the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires fight a war 502-506, followed by a twenty-year truce. In 526, tensions rise between the two Empires and fighting begins to escalate. After a successful Byzantine raid into Sassanid Armenia in 529, Firuz leads a Sassanid army into Mesopotamia to capture the Byzantine fortress of Daras. Belisarius constructs a wide ditch and leads the Byzantine defenders outside Daras’ walls to do battle. He then sends a message to Firuz suggesting a short armistice to hold negotiations. Firuz interprets these two actions as a sign of weakness and resolves to attack.. July 28, 1402. Strategic Context. The clash between the Timurid and Ottoman Empires is not surprising in the early 1400s. Tamerlane’s Timurids conquer Syria and Iraq while Bayezid I’s Ottomans conquer eastern Anatolia. When Tamerlane invades eastern Anatolia in early summer 1402, Bayezid breaks off his siege of Byzantine Constantinople and marches east to face him. Along the way, he abandons a strong position at Ankara only for the Timurid army to vanish. Tamerlane completely evades Bayezid to only to reappear behind the Ottoman army at Ankara. Bayezid marches his exhausted army west to meet the Timurid invaders. Tamerlane diverts the Cubuk Creek and destroys all the wells around Ankara while he awaits his opponent; the Ottomans arrive at Ankara to find deceivingly sufficient fresh water.. . September 17, 1631. Strategic Context. In 1618, war breaks out when Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia, attempts to enforce strict Catholicism on Bohemia, a state of the Holy Roman Empire. What begins as a localized conflict between Protestants and Catholics within Bohemia, steadily widens into full-scale warfare across Europe as Ferdinand ascends to Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. By 1629, the Protestant forces of France, Holland, the Palatinate, and Hesse-Kessel confront the Catholic-Imperialist forces of the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Bavaria and Savoy. In 1630, Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, enters the war on the side of the Protestants and lands in northern Germany. The Imperialist commander in the region, Johann Tscerclaes, Count of Tilly, invades Saxony as a precautionary measure to ensure it does not ally with the Swedes. However, Johann Georg, Elector of Saxony, fears the Swedes more and quickly combines forces with them. The combined Swedish-Saxon army confronts the Imperialist army near Breitenfeld.. Learning objective . – to be able to identify the significance of the Battle of Agincourt in trends in Medieval warfare.. I can . describe. the key . changes and continuities . shown in the Battle of Agincourt.