Qualla: Battle of Y Dalar Hir https://qualla.com/battle-of-y-dalar-hir en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-y-dalar-hir-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Y Dalar Hir https://qualla.com/battle-of-y-dalar-hir Battle of Y Dalar Hir: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-y-dalar-hir/ Photo credit Nigel Swales, CC BY-SA 2.0. The two armies meeting near Llandegai had agreed on almost everything by accident. Both used field-words that began with the same letter - the Royalists' "Resolution," the Parliamentarians' "Religion." Neither side wore scarves or sashes to distinguish themselves. On a misty shore of the Menai Strait, two forces who could not be told apart by sound or sight rode at each other anyway. Half an hour later, a Parliamentarian trooper named Edward Taylor had broken his sword over a Welsh knight's skull, dragged him off his horse, and ended the Second Civil War in North Wales.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-y-dalar-hir-wp/gcmn-battle-of-y-dalar-hir-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Y Dalar Hir: A War That Refused to End https://qualla.com/battle-of-y-dalar-hir/ Photo credit British School, Public domain. Charles I had been beaten in 1646 and the First English Civil War was supposedly over. Then the New Model Army stopped getting paid and the king stopped negotiating in good faith. By the spring of 1648, his Scottish allies were preparing to invade, John Poyer was holding Pembroke...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-y-dalar-hir-wp/gcmn-battle-of-y-dalar-hir-a-war-that-refused-to-end.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Y Dalar Hir: The Siege at Caernarfon https://qualla.com/battle-of-y-dalar-hir/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. On 3 June Owen clashed with local militia near Llandwrog and captured the High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, William Lloyd, who was badly wounded and died days later. Owen then drove the Parliamentarian commander Thomas Mytton inside Caernarfon Castle and laid siege. The castle was...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-y-dalar-hir-wp/gcmn-battle-of-y-dalar-hir-the-siege-at-caernarfon.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Y Dalar Hir: A Half-Hour Fight on the Foreshore https://qualla.com/battle-of-y-dalar-hir/ Photo credit Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0. The opening cavalry charge favoured the Royalists. Owen led the second wave himself, driving Twisleton's horse back in disorder, and for a few minutes it looked as if the rising might survive the day. Then Owen committed all his strength against the Parliamentarian reserve - and ...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-y-dalar-hir-wp/gcmn-battle-of-y-dalar-hir-a-half-hour-fight-on-the-foreshore.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Y Dalar Hir: What Defeat Confined https://qualla.com/battle-of-y-dalar-hir/ Photo credit JohnArmagh, Public domain. Owen went first to Denbigh Castle. Sixty of his men tried to scale the walls one night in July with two ladders; they were spotted and most were captured. Two of his officers came back later that month, fired their pistols in front of the castle in a futile bravado, and rode away...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/n/battle-of-y-dalar-hir-wp/gcmn-battle-of-y-dalar-hir-what-defeat-confined.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Y Dalar Hir: The Quiet Shoreline Now https://qualla.com/battle-of-y-dalar-hir/ Photo credit Chris Andrews, CC BY-SA 2.0. Y Dalar Hir was never the kind of battle that built monuments. The site - a strip of foreshore north-east of Llandegai, looking across the strait toward Beaumaris - is now grazing land and woodland. The Edge of Coed Gyfynys runs down to the water about where the cavalry charged. ...

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