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      <image:title>Thermopylae 480 BC: Were the 300 Spartans Ever the Whole Story?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Leonidas at Thermopylae in Jacques-Louis David&apos;s 1814 painting</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/alesia-52-bc-caesars-siege</loc>
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      <image:title>Alesia 52 BC: How Much of Caesar’s Perfect Siege Can We Trust?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sixteenth-century depiction of Caesar&apos;s siege of Alesia by Melchior Feselen</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/roman-britain-ad-43-invasion</loc>
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      <image:title>Roman Britain AD 43: What Do We Actually Know About Claudius’s Invasion?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Map of the Roman conquest of Britain from AD 43 to 60, by Notuncurious via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Stamford Bridge 1066: The Battle Before Hastings</image:title>
      <image:caption>Thirteenth-century depiction of the Battle of Stamford Bridge from the Life of Edward the Confessor</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/hastings-1066-how-one-day-changed-england</loc>
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      <image:title>Hastings 1066: We Know Who Won. Do We Know Where They Fought?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bayeux Tapestry scene showing Norman cavalry attacking the Anglo-Saxon shield wall at Hastings</image:caption>
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      <image:title>The Anglo-Saxon Shield Wall: How It Worked in Battle</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bayeux Tapestry scene showing the Anglo-Saxon shield wall against Norman cavalry at Hastings</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/agincourt-1415-longbows-mud-stakes</loc>
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      <image:title>Agincourt 1415: Was It Really the Longbow That Won?</image:title>
      <image:caption>King Henry V at Agincourt in Sir John Gilbert&apos;s nineteenth-century painting</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/towton-1461-wars-of-the-roses</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:55:08+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Towton 1461: Was It Really England’s Bloodiest Battle?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Nineteenth-century engraving of Edward IV rallying Yorkist troops at the Battle of Towton</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/crecy-1346-english-longbow</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T21:09:00+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Crécy 1346: Did the Longbow Really Win the Battle?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Fifteenth-century manuscript depiction of the Battle of Crecy in 1346</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/naseby-1645-royalist-field-army</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-12T20:09:44+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Naseby 1645: Did the New Model Army Really Win the Civil War?</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Battle of Naseby, 14 June 1645, in a historical engraving by Edward Radclyffe</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/marston-moor-1644-english-civil-war</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:54:49+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Marston Moor 1644: Did Cromwell Really Win the Battle?</image:title>
      <image:caption>John Barker&apos;s historical painting of the Battle of Marston Moor, 1644</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/pike-and-shot-how-infantry-fought</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-27T07:08:40+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Pike and Shot: Did Firearms Really Make the Pike Obsolete?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Seventeenth-century manual exercise showing ranked musketeers handling the musket</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/trafalgar-1805-nelson-battle</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-23T21:43:55+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Trafalgar 1805: What Actually Won Nelson the Battle?</image:title>
      <image:caption>J. M. W. Turner&apos;s painting of the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/waterloo-1815-how-battle-unfolded</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-18T11:11:51+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Waterloo 1815: What Actually Decided the Battle?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Historical plan of the Waterloo battlefield showing roads, villages and troop positions</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/british-infantry-square-napoleonic-wars</loc>
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      <image:title>British Square Formation at Waterloo: How Infantry Stopped Cavalry</image:title>
      <image:caption>Alexandre Protais painting of a Napoleonic infantry square after Waterloo</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/hundred-days-1815-why-waterloo-happened</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-23T21:18:11+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Hundred Days 1815: Was Waterloo Inevitable?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Waterloo Campaign map showing French, Anglo-Allied and Prussian movements from 15 to 18 June 1815</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/1415-campaign-harfleur-march-calais-road-agincourt</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11T18:09:14+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The 1415 Campaign: Harfleur, the March to Calais and the Road to Agincourt</image:title>
      <image:caption>Nineteenth-century plan of the Battle of Agincourt and the English and French positions</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/1066-succession-crisis-campaign-england</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-13T11:45:55+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>1066: The Succession Crisis, Three Claimants and the Campaign for England</image:title>
      <image:caption>Map of the major events of the 1066 campaign in England, including Fulford, Stamford Bridge, Pevensey and Hastings</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/english-civil-war-1644-45-marston-moor-new-model-army-naseby</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-18T12:02:39+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Marston Moor to Naseby: How Parliament Gained the Upper Hand, 1644–45</image:title>
      <image:caption>Cromwell after the Battle of Marston Moor, painted by Ernest Crofts in 1877</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/persian-wars-480-479-bc-xerxes-thermopylae-salamis-plataea</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-23T21:43:55+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Persian Wars 480–479 BC: Xerxes, Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataea</image:title>
      <image:caption>Map of the Persian invasion of Greece and movements from Thermopylae to Salamis and Plataea, courtesy of the Department of History, United States Military Academy</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/gallic-revolt-52-bc-vercingetorix-gergovia-road-alesia</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-23T21:43:55+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Gallic Revolt of 52 BC: Vercingetorix, Gergovia and the Road to Alesia</image:title>
      <image:caption>Map of Julius Caesar&apos;s campaigns in Gaul, including the 52 BC operations towards Gergovia and Alesia</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/hundred-years-war-1337-1453-crecy-poitiers-agincourt-castillon</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-23T21:33:00+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/hundred-years-war-france-1429-map.png?v=1788238080</image:loc>
      <image:title>Hundred Years’ War 1337–1453: Why Did England Win the Famous Battles but Lose the War?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Map of French, Burgundian and English-controlled territories in France in 1429 during the Hundred Years&apos; War</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/wars-of-the-roses-1455-1487-york-lancaster-road-towton</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-23T21:43:55+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Wars of the Roses 1455–1487: Was It Really York Versus Lancaster?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Historical map showing important locations in the Wars of the Roses from St Albans and Towton to Bosworth</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/1805-naval-campaign-boulogne-west-indies-road-trafalgar</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11T18:07:56+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The 1805 Naval Campaign: Boulogne, the West Indies and the Road to Trafalgar</image:title>
      <image:caption>Robert Dodd&apos;s 1805 public-domain plan showing Nelson and Collingwood&apos;s two British columns attacking the combined French and Spanish fleet at Trafalgar</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/xerxes-i-persian-king-invasion-greece-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:48:57+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Xerxes I: The Persian King Behind the Invasion of Greece</image:title>
      <image:caption>Achaemenid royal relief identified as Xerxes I at the Hadish Palace in Persepolis</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/leonidas-i-sparta-thermopylae-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:49:53+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Leonidas I: Sparta, Kingship and the Last Stand at Thermopylae</image:title>
      <image:caption>Modern commemorative bust identified as Leonidas I in Sparta</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/themistocles-athens-salamis-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:55:38+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Themistocles: The Athenian Strategist Who Made Salamis Possible</image:title>
      <image:caption>Roman-era bust of Themistocles based on a Greek original, Museo Archeologico Ostiense</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/vercingetorix-gallic-leader-caesar-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:50:18+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Vercing_C3_A9torix_Al_C3_A9sia.jpg?v=1788241773</image:loc>
      <image:title>Vercingetorix: The Gallic Leader Who Defied Caesar</image:title>
      <image:caption>Nineteenth-century monument to Vercingetorix at Alise-Sainte-Reine near Alesia</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/aulus-plautius-roman-invasion-britain-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:54:47+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/1920px-Roman.Britain.campaigns.43.to.60_dd0f61df-045c-4f3f-b95c-9ae35b84ac85.jpg?v=1788241776</image:loc>
      <image:title>Aulus Plautius: The General Who Led Rome into Britain</image:title>
      <image:caption>Map of Roman campaigns in Britain from AD 43, used because no secure contemporary portrait of Aulus Plautius survives</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/caratacus-british-resistance-rome-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:37:53+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Caractacus_before_the_Emperor_Claudius_at_Rome.jpg?v=1788241779</image:loc>
      <image:title>Caratacus: The British Leader Who Resisted Rome</image:title>
      <image:caption>Later historical painting of Caratacus before Emperor Claudius at Rome</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/harold-godwinson-king-1066-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:55:15+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Harold Godwinson: The King Who Fought Two Invasions in 1066</image:title>
      <image:caption>Harold Godwinson depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/william-conqueror-normandy-hastings-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T21:04:47+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>William the Conqueror: Normandy, Hastings and the Making of a New England</image:title>
      <image:caption>William the Conqueror depicted lifting his helmet at Hastings in the Bayeux Tapestry</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/harald-hardrada-norway-1066-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T21:05:05+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Harald Hardrada: The Viking King Who Invaded England in 1066</image:title>
      <image:caption>Thirteenth-century manuscript depiction identified as Harald Hardrada, King Harald III of Norway</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/tostig-godwinson-exile-stamford-bridge-biography</loc>
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      <image:title>Tostig Godwinson: Exile, Rebellion and the Road to Stamford Bridge</image:title>
      <image:caption>Later medieval manuscript scene depicting Harold and Tostig Godwinson in dispute</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/julius-caesar-general-politician-gaul-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:50:46+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Julius Caesar: General, Politician and Conqueror of Gaul</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Tusculum portrait, a marble portrait type associated with Julius Caesar</image:caption>
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  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/claudius-emperor-roman-invasion-britain-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:55:11+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Claudius: The Emperor Who Ordered the Roman Invasion of Britain</image:title>
      <image:caption>Marble portrait head of the Roman emperor Claudius from Gabii, now in the Louvre</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/edward-iii-hundred-years-war-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:55:13+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Portrait_of_Edward_III__4673693.jpg?v=1788593158</image:loc>
      <image:title>Edward III: The King Who Took England into the Hundred Years’ War</image:title>
      <image:caption>Seventeenth-century engraved portrait of King Edward III by Simon van de Passe</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/philip-vi-france-crecy-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:55:35+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Philip VI: The Valois King Who Faced Edward III at Crécy</image:title>
      <image:caption>Historical engraved portrait of Philip VI of France</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/henry-v-agincourt-normandy-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:13:10+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Henry_V__281386-1422_29_of_England.jpg?v=1788593090</image:loc>
      <image:title>Henry V: Kingship, Agincourt and the Conquest of Normandy</image:title>
      <image:caption>Posthumous portrait of King Henry V of England from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/edward-black-prince-crecy-poitiers-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:45:28+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Edward_the_Black_Prince_1430.jpg?v=1788242150</image:loc>
      <image:title>Edward the Black Prince: Crécy, Poitiers and the Warrior Prince</image:title>
      <image:caption>Fifteenth-century Garter manuscript miniature of Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/joan-of-arc-orleans-reims-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T21:05:57+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Contemporaine_afb_jeanne_d_arc.png?v=1788593092</image:loc>
      <image:title>Joan of Arc: Orléans, Reims and the Recovery of Charles VII</image:title>
      <image:caption>Joan of Arc in a 1429 drawing by Clément de Fauquembergue, the only known portrayal made during her lifetime</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/charles-vii-france-hundred-years-war-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:55:10+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Charles_VII_by_Jean_Fouquet_1445_1450.2.jpg?v=1788593236</image:loc>
      <image:title>Charles VII: The King Who Recovered France</image:title>
      <image:caption>Portrait of Charles VII of France by Jean Fouquet</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/henry-vi-wars-of-the-roses-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:55:30+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/HenryVIofEngland.jpg?v=1788242278</image:loc>
      <image:title>Henry VI: The King at the Centre of the Wars of the Roses</image:title>
      <image:caption>Posthumous portrait traditionally identified as King Henry VI of England</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/margaret-of-anjou-wars-of-the-roses-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:55:32+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/MargaretAnjou.jpg?v=1788242280</image:loc>
      <image:title>Margaret of Anjou: Queen, Commander and Lancastrian Power</image:title>
      <image:caption>Margaret of Anjou depicted in the fifteenth-century Talbot Shrewsbury Book</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/richard-duke-of-york-wars-of-the-roses-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:54:29+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Richard, Duke of York: Claimant, Protector and Father of Edward IV</image:title>
      <image:caption>Later stained-glass representation of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, at Ludlow</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/edward-iv-yorkist-king-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:54:58+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Edward4.jpg?v=1788242285</image:loc>
      <image:title>Edward IV: Towton, Warwick and the Yorkist Crown</image:title>
      <image:caption>Posthumous painted portrait of King Edward IV of England</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/richard-neville-warwick-kingmaker-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:55:23+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Richard_Neville.jpg?v=1788242286</image:loc>
      <image:title>Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: The ‘Kingmaker’</image:title>
      <image:caption>Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, depicted in the fifteenth-century Rous Roll</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/richard-iii-bosworth-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:13:11+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/King_Richard_III.jpg?v=1788593095</image:loc>
      <image:title>Richard III: Protector, King and the Road to Bosworth</image:title>
      <image:caption>Late-sixteenth-century portrait of King Richard III of England</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/henry-vii-bosworth-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:56:00+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Portrait_of_Henry_VII__4670863.jpg?v=1788593161</image:loc>
      <image:title>Henry VII: Bosworth and the Foundation of the Tudor Dynasty</image:title>
      <image:caption>Historical portrait of King Henry VII of England</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/charles-i-english-civil-war-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:39:40+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Portrait_study_of_Charles_1_2C_Anthony_van_Dyck.jpg?v=1788242429</image:loc>
      <image:title>Charles I: Did the King Cause the Civil War?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lifetime portrait study of King Charles I by Anthony van Dyck</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/prince-rupert-english-civil-war-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:13:43+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Prince_Rupert_of_the_Rhine_2C_Count_Palatine_2C_Duke_of_Cumberland.jpg?v=1788242431</image:loc>
      <image:title>Prince Rupert: Was the Royalist Cavalryman Really Reckless?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Seventeenth-century portrait of Prince Rupert of the Rhine in armour</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/oliver-cromwell-civil-war-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:13:43+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Oliver_Cromwell_by_Samuel_Cooper.jpg?v=1788242434</image:loc>
      <image:title>Oliver Cromwell: Military Genius, Revolutionary—or Both?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Portrait of Oliver Cromwell by the miniaturist Samuel Cooper</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/thomas-fairfax-new-model-army-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:13:43+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Portret_van_Thomas_Fairfax__RP-P-OB-71.437.jpg?v=1788593231</image:loc>
      <image:title>Thomas Fairfax: The Commander Cromwell Overshadowed?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Seventeenth-century engraved portrait of Sir Thomas Fairfax</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/alexander-leslie-leven-marston-moor-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:36:18+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/George_Jamesone__281589-1590-1644_29__28attributed_to_29_-_Alexander_Leslie__28c.1580_E2_80_931661_29_2C_1st_Earl_of_Leven_2C_Soldier_-_PG_1411_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland.jpg?v=1788242436</image:loc>
      <image:title>Alexander Leslie: Did Scotland Win Marston Moor for Parliament?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Seventeenth-century portrait of Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/william-cavendish-newcastle-civil-war-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:13:43+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/William_Cavendish_2C_1st_Duke_of_Newcastle.jpg?v=1788242438</image:loc>
      <image:title>William Cavendish: Did Marston Moor Destroy the Royalist North?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Early-seventeenth-century portrait traditionally identified as William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/napoleon-bonaparte-waterloo-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-23T21:16:44+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Jacques-Louis_David_-_Napoleon_in_his_Study_-_WGA6093.jpg?v=1788242570</image:loc>
      <image:title>Napoleon Bonaparte: Emperor, Campaigner and the Hundred Days</image:title>
      <image:caption>Napoleon Bonaparte in his study, painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1812</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/duke-of-wellington-waterloo-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-23T21:18:11+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Arthur_Duke_of_Wellington.jpg?v=1788593338</image:loc>
      <image:title>Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington: From India to Waterloo</image:title>
      <image:caption>Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, in a portrait after Sir Thomas Lawrence</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/gebhard-von-blucher-waterloo-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:46:14+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Peter_Edward_Stroehling_-_Portr_C3_A4t_Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl_C3_BCcher.jpg?v=1788242576</image:loc>
      <image:title>Gebhard von Blücher: The Prussian Marshal Who Reached Waterloo</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher in a portrait by Peter Edward Stroehling</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/michel-ney-waterloo-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:46:32+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Marshal Michel Ney: From the Grande Armée to Waterloo</image:title>
      <image:caption>Historical engraved portrait of Marshal Michel Ney</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/horatio-nelson-trafalgar-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:56:30+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Horatio_Nelson_2C_Viscount_Nelson_by_Lemuel_Francis_Abbott.jpg?v=1788242657</image:loc>
      <image:title>Horatio Nelson: Command, Risk and the Road to Trafalgar</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lifetime portrait of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson by Lemuel Francis Abbott</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/cuthbert-collingwood-trafalgar-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:56:55+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson’s Second-in-Command at Trafalgar</image:title>
      <image:caption>Historical portrait print of Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/pierre-charles-villeneuve-trafalgar-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:57:26+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Amiral_de_Villeneuve.png?v=1788593232</image:loc>
      <image:title>Pierre-Charles Villeneuve: The French Admiral at Trafalgar</image:title>
      <image:caption>Historical portrait of French Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/federico-gravina-spanish-admiral-trafalgar-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:57:53+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/Federico_Gravina.jpg?v=1788242662</image:loc>
      <image:title>Federico Gravina: The Spanish Admiral at Trafalgar</image:title>
      <image:caption>Painted portrait of Spanish Admiral Federico Gravina</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/salamis-480-bc-greek-fleet-xerxes</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:54:52+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Salamis 480 BC: How the Greek Fleet Broke Xerxes’ Invasion</image:title>
      <image:caption>Map of the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC showing Greek and Persian naval movements</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/plataea-479-bc-persian-invasion</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T20:59:04+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Plataea 479 BC: The Battle That Ended the Persian Invasion</image:title>
      <image:caption>Historical interpretive map of the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/pausanias-spartan-regent-plataea-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:55:34+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/pausanias-spartan-regent-death-illustration.jpg?v=1788330366</image:loc>
      <image:title>Pausanias: The Spartan Regent Who Won at Plataea</image:title>
      <image:caption>Nineteenth-century illustration of the death of Pausanias, the Spartan commander at Plataea</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/mardonius-persian-commander-plataea-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15T21:00:06+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1029/8078/0374/articles/mardonius-envoys-athens-1832.jpg?v=1788330369</image:loc>
      <image:title>Mardonius: The Persian Commander Who Made His Last Stand at Plataea</image:title>
      <image:caption>Nineteenth-century illustration of Athenian resistance to envoys sent by Mardonius</image:caption>
    </image:image>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://ironregiment.co.uk/blogs/regimental-record/artemisia-i-caria-salamis-biography</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-24T16:54:45+02:00</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Nineteenth-century depiction of Artemisia I fighting at the Battle of Salamis</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Model of an ancient Greek trireme representing the allied fleet commanded by Eurybiades</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Interpretive map of the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 showing Fenn Lane, the marsh, army positions and final movements</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Interpretive map of the Battle of Gergovia in 52 BC showing the plateau, Roman camps, connecting works and failed assault</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bust of the Roman emperor Vespasian, who commanded troops during the invasion of Britain in AD 43</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Map of the Battle of the River Medway AD 43 during the Roman invasion of Britain</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Map of the Battle of Minden on 1 August 1759 during the Seven Years&apos; War</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>William Faden&apos;s 1801 plan of British operations from Aboukir Bay to the Battle of Alexandria</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sir Ralph Abercromby, commander of the British expedition to Egypt in 1801</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Portrait of Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel around 1760</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lord George Sackville, British cavalry commander at Minden in 1759</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jacques-François Menou, French commander in Egypt in 1801</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Historical map of Central Europe during the Silesian and Seven Years&apos; Wars</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>William Faden&apos;s 1801 plan of British operations in Egypt from Aboukir Bay to Alexandria</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Map of Roman campaigning in Britain, showing the province whose imperial rule ended around AD 410</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bayeux Tapestry scene showing William of Normandy on the battlefield during the Battle of Hastings in 1066</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Charles d&apos;Albret represented in the fifteenth-century Armorial de Gilles Le Bouvier</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jean II Le Maingre, Boucicaut, praying before Saint Catherine in his Book of Hours</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Beaufort ducal heraldry representing the family of Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Neville family depicted in a fifteenth-century Book of Hours associated with William Neville&apos;s family</image:caption>
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      <image:title>John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk: Reinforcement, Power and Towton</image:title>
      <image:caption>Heraldic arms associated with John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Map of the Crusader states in the eastern Mediterranean, a central theatre of medieval holy war</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bayeux Tapestry replica displayed in Reading Museum, created by the Leek Embroidery Society</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Thirteenth-century depiction of the Battle of Stamford Bridge from the Life of Edward the Confessor</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Statue of Boudica beside the River Thames in London</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One of the surviving 1215 copies of Magna Carta held by the British Library</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Portrait of Alfred the Great by Samuel Woodforde, c. 1790</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Eighteenth-century painting of a military officer of the East India Company</image:caption>
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