Hingston Down, 838, battle between Egbert, king of Wessex, and the Britons of Cornwall allied with the Danes resulting in the annexation of Cornwall to Wessex.
Siegburg, 1 June 1796, a French attack by the forces of General Lefebvre as part of the Rhine offensive that captured the bridge in Siegberg and forced an Austrian retreat.
Ridge, Major Henry, British commander notable for unconventionally leading his battalion of the 5th Foot uphill in-line against cavalry and thereby routing 2500 French Dragoons and recapturing a battery of Portuguese guns at El Bodon.
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