• The Battle of Maidstone (1 June 1648) was fought in the Second English Civil War and was a victory for the attacking Parliamentarian troops over the defending...
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    Maidstone is the largest town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town. Maidstone is historically important and lies 32 miles (51 km) east-south-east...
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  • Maidstone United Football Club is a non-professional football club based in Maidstone, Kent, England. The team competes in the National League South,...
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    the Conquest of Tunis. 1648 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War. 1649 – Start of the Sumuroy...
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    Sir William Brockman (category Alumni of the University of Oxford)
    defence of Maidstone in the Royalist cause, during the English Civil War. William Brockman was born in England in 1595, at Lyminge in Kent, the son of Henry...
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    Parliament to many victories, including the crucial Battle of Naseby, effectively becoming military ruler of England, but he was eventually overshadowed by...
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  • The history of Maidstone and its environs goes as far back as Mesolithic times. It has seen settlement by the Romans and the Normans and played a role...
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  • Nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Maidstone, after the English town of Maidstone, or the Battle of Maidstone: Maidstone was a 40-gun...
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    London for his support of the Kentish Royalist Petition of 1642, which indirectly led to the Battle of Maidstone 1648. The last of the Butlers, Sir Philip...
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    Royalist uprising in Kent at the Battle of Maidstone on 1 June. Fairfax, after his success at Maidstone and the pacification of Kent, turned north to reduce...
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    to the start of the second phase of the war. However, Canterbury surrendered peacefully to Parliamentarians at the Battle of Maidstone. By 1770, the...
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    Leeds Castle (category Borough of Maidstone)
    miles (11 km) southeast of Maidstone. It is built on islands in a lake formed by the River Len to the east of the village of Leeds. It is a historic Grade I...
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    Kent on 1 June at the fiercely fought Battle of Maidstone. He then moved into Essex and began an eleven-week siege of Colchester. In South Wales the Parliamentarians...
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  • Maidstone 13 June – 28 August, Siege of Colchester 17 August – 19 August, Battle of Preston 19 August, Battle of Winwick 28 August, On the evening of...
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  • of 1648. He commanded the Kentish levies, which Fairfax dispersed at Maidstone and elsewhere and was forced to surrender unconditionally at Colchester...
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    Parliament. June 1 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War. June 20 – Russian explorer Semyon...
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    Walmer Castle (category History of Kent)
    defeated the wider insurgency at the Battle of Maidstone at the start of June, and then sent a force under the command of Colonel Nathaniel Rich to deal with...
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    The Maidstone was a 40-gun fourth-rate frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Woodbridge, and...
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    defeated the wider insurgency at the Battle of Maidstone at the start of June and then sent a force under the command of Colonel Nathaniel Rich to deal with...
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    the wider insurgency at the Battle of Maidstone at the start of June, however, and then sent a force under the command of Colonel Rich to deal with the...
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    Upnor Castle (category George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle)
    seizing a number of towns, including Gravesend, Rochester, Dover, and Maidstone. The Royalists were defeated in the Battle of Maidstone on 1 June, and the...
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  • The Maidstone-class frigate was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate class of two ships designed by Sir John Henslow and ordered on 4 February 1795. The class was...
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    defeated the wider insurgency at the Battle of Maidstone at the start of June, and then sent a force under the command of Colonel Nathaniel Rich to deal with...
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    insurgency at the Battle of Maidstone at the start of June and then sent a force under the command of Colonel Rich to deal with the castles of the Downs. Walmer...
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  • Civil War) [Wars of the Three Kingdoms] Battle of Maidstone – 1648 – Second English Civil War (Wars of the Three Kingdoms) Battle of St Neots (1648) –...
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  • New Model Army into the county and defeated the Royalists at the Battle of Maidstone on 1 June. Once Parliament had re-established full control it passed...
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  • Parliament. June 1 – The Roundheads defeat the Cavaliers at the Battle of Maidstone in the Second English Civil War. June 20 – Russian explorer Semyon...
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    Kent (redirect from County of Kent, England)
    county town is Maidstone. It is the fifth most populous county in England, the most populous non-metropolitan county and the most populous of the Home Counties...
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    of the Medway over the narrow Rochester Bridge and so marched to the south, crossing the river near Maidstone thus provoking the Battle of Maidstone....
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  • Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved 15 May 2019. "IPW:UK International Battle Royale 2019". Cagematch - The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved 15...
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