In 1405 with 2,500 French troops available, Glyndwr mounted raids into the heavily English-settled south of Pembrokeshire, threatening the Little England Beyond Wales that the Flemish and English settlers had established there. The raids exploited the French alliance and demonstrated Welsh reach into the south-west that had previously been immune to the rebellion. However Pembroke Castle itself remained English and the raids could not convert Pembrokeshire to Welsh control.
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