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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at IntoHistory.com. It's just after midnight on March 21st, 1282, at Hilarden Castle in North Wales.

In the courtyard, 43-year-old Daphethit-A at Griffith raises his heavy sword. All around him, steel

clashes with armor. A battle is raging. Daffet and his men have launched a surprise attack on this

castle, and they're determined to take it. After five years apiece, tensions between England

and Wales have reached a boiling point. The English have broken the terms of a treaty

and encroached on Welsh land. Daffet is hell-bent on kicking them out, starting with Hawarden Castle.

Daffet's men have already breached the outer wall and are now fighting their way through the courtyard

toward the inner gatehouse, the final obstacle to the castle's fortified core.

Daffeth and his men quickly surround the entrance.

Calling out, he orders the English soldiers inside to surrender.

There's a long silence.

Then suddenly an English spearman charges out of the doorway.

Daffeth merrily sidesteps the advancing soldier and parries his spear.

Then he turns and plunges his sword into the Englishman's back.

The spearman crumbles to the ground, and seeing their dead comrade,

the remaining English guards hastily vacate the gatehouse with their hands in the air.

As word of Daffet-Ap Griffith's victory spreads, other Welsh the air.

As word of Daffet-Ap Griffith's victory spreads, other Welsh noblemen take up arms against the English, but King Edward I of England is furious.

Known as Longshanks, because of his imposing height, King Edward gathers his barons and launches

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