Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130504114838/@comment-5674726-20130514060641

''Either way, I would have liked a clarification on this. Was it only an accident or did Uther refuse to sent reinforcements so that Gorlois dies? I doubt he did but I would have liked to know for sure.''

It could have been a case that Uther didn't have any reinforcements to send, especially if Camelot was fighting on more than one front at the time, or that it was over too quickly for reinforcements to arrive in time to do any good. Morgana was only ten at the time, she wouldn't know the details but could have got the idea that her father died due to a lack of reinforcements by overhearing servants' gossip, without it necessarily having any basis in fact.

It's a bit odd that the issue of reinforcements isn't revisited when Uther speaks to Morgana about how good a friend Gorlois was, to clarify that reinforcements were either not possible or not planned, so by the time word could be sent that they were needed, it was too late.