Flint Castle (Welsh: Castell y Fflint) in Flint, Flintshire, was the first of a series of castles built during King Edward I's campaign to conquer Wales...
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the castle was built, and was first recorded in 1277 in the French form le Chaylou (cf modern French caillou, "gravel"). Edward I began to build Flint Castle...
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HMS Flint Castle (K383) was one of 44 Castle-class corvettes built for the Royal Navy during World War II. Completed at the end of 1943, the ship ran aground...
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Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk...
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Rhuddlan, which was not completed until 1282, was built concurrently with Flint Castle, at a time when King Edward I of England was consolidating his conquest...
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(Arkansas/Oklahoma) Flint Creek (New York) The Flint, a neighborhood in Fall River, Massachusetts Flint, Flintshire, a town Flint Castle Flintshire (historic)...
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000 on all of the castles, with £20,000 being incurred just by Rhuddlan Castle, Aberystwyth Castle, Flint Castle, and Builth Castle. The purpose of building...
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the keep is outside the inner bailey, such as Château de Dourdan and Flint Castle. The lower or outer bailey often held less important structures, such...
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anti-submarine vessel in the 1955 film The Cockleshell Heroes, as was HMS Flint Castle. Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June...
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negotiations. On 19 August, Richard surrendered to Henry Bolingbroke at Flint Castle, promising to abdicate if his life were spared. Both men then returned...
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