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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Battle of Marston Moor, Synod of Whitby, Caedmon, Rievaulx Abbey, Battle of the Standard, Scarborough Castle, Battle of Dogger Bank, Malton, Eboracum, Little North Western Railway, Treaty of York, Great Siege of Scarborough Castle, Thirsk, Vale of York Hoard, Malton and Driffield Railway, Northallerton, History of Skipton, Scandinavian York, Thirsk rail crash, North Riding of Yorkshire, Thornborough Henges, Kirkdale Cave, Barkston Ash, Star Carr, RAF Tholthorpe, Battle of Fulford, Trow Ghyll skeleton, Whitby Abbey, Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications, Star Carr house, RAF East Moor, RAF Dalton, RAF Skipton-on-Swale, Easby Abbey, Battle of Catraeth, Wharram Percy, Kirkdale sundial, York Theatre Royal, Startforth Rural District, Devil's Arrows, Battle of Selby, Wharfedale Rural District, Botwine, RAF Catterick, Settle rail crash, Isurium Brigantum, Yorkshire North, Liberty of Ripon, Lloyds Bank coprolite, Buckrose, Treaty of Ripon, Dickering, Redcar Jazz Club, Norton Rural District, Cawthorne Camp, Wetherby Rural District, Calcaria, Middlesbrough Rural District, Sherburn Rural District, Stokesley Rural District, Skipton Rural District, Tadcaster Rural District, Dunod Fawr, Selby Rural District, Croft Rural District, Wath Rural District, Ripon and Pateley Bridge Rural District, Allertonshire. Excerpt: The Battle of the Standard, sometimes called the Battle of Northallerton, in which English forces repelled a Scottish army, took place on 22 August 1138 on Cowton Moor near Northallerton in Yorkshire. The Scottish forces were led by King David I of Scotland. The English were commanded by William of Aumale. King Stephen of England (fighting rebel barons in the south) had sent a small force (largely mercenaries), but the English army was mainly local militia and baronial retinues from Yorkshire and the north Midlands. Archbisho..
