The Battle of Fishgard

The british response force still only totald about 700 troops. Half of the french forces were lying around shrunk in various places. A local woman called jemima nicholas rounded up a party of women, and they captured 12 drunk french soldiers and locked them up in the church. But also other wives in fishgard who are said to have masqueraded as british soldiers which is the wackiest story ever. Apparently the local welsh garb is easily mistaken from a distance to be british soldier advancing over the hill,. which spoke to the french. If this story is to be believed, this was part of the thinking of the ding force that they were

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