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Alnwick, First Battle of

Years: 1093 - 1093

The Battle of Alnwick (1093) is one of two battles fought near the town of Alnwick, in Northumberland, England.

In this battle, which occurs on 13 November 1093, Malcolm III of Scotland, also known as Malcolm Canmore, is killed together with his son Edward, by an army of knights led by Robert de Mowbray.

"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends."

― Mark Twain, The Gilded Age (1874)