Battle of Conway (1295)

Nicholas Trevet (d.1328), a Dominican in Oxford desribes a victory of the English over the Welsh at Conway in Janurary 1295.

When the count of Warwick heard that the Welsh were assembled in large numbers on a certain plain between two forests, he took a selected corps of armed men, along with crossbowmen and archers, attacked the Welsh in the night, and hemmed them in on all sides.  The Welsh planted the ends of  their spears in the ground and directed their points against the attacking horsemen in order to protect themselves against their assault.  But the count placed a crossbowman between every two horsemen, and when the largest part of the Welsh had been laid out by their bolts from the crossbows, the count attacked the remainder with his mounted troops and caused them, it is believed, heavier losses than any they had suffered in earlier wars.

This text is from The Welsh Wars of Edward I, A Contribution to Medieval Military History based on Original Documents, by John E. Morris (Oxford, 1901).