Harlech Castle held out for the Lancastrian cause for seven extraordinary years after the rest of England and Wales had submitted to Edward IV. A tiny garrison of barely fifty men under the defiant Welsh constable Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Einion refused to yield. When it finally fell in 1468, it was the last Lancastrian stronghold in the British Isles. The garrison's stubbornness in the face of hopeless odds almost certainly inspired the march "Men of Harlech." Dafydd ap Ieuan allegedly said that he had held a castle in France until every old woman in Wales heard of it, and would hold Harlech until every old woman in France heard of it.
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