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/* Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum c.1129-c.1154 */
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==Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum c.1129-c.1154==
* AD 752Battle of Burford
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">“Ethelhun who led the West-Saxons, bearing the royal standard, a golden dragon, transfixed the standard-bearer of the enemy.” [BOHN 1853:p.130]
* AD 1016Battle of Assandun
:<span style="font-style: italic; color: green">“King Edmund distinguished himself for his valour. For perceiving that the Danes were fighting with more than ordinary vigour, he quitted his royal station which, as was wont, he had taken between the dragon and the ensign called the Standard,....” [BOHN 1853:p.194]