The corridor between Gloucester and Bristol formed the logistical backbone of the Angevin cause throughout the Anarchy. Robert of Gloucester maintained a near-continuous campaign of skirmishing along this axis to protect supply lines and to raid royalist territory in the Cotswolds and southern Midlands. Numerous unnamed engagements occurred between royalist and Angevin foraging parties and garrison forces along this contested zone.
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