The battle of Powick Bridge was a skirmish fought on 23 September 1642 south of Worcester, England, during the First English Civil War. It was the first...
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soldiers in the English Civil War in what became known as the Battle of Powick Bridge. It was a short, sharp, but decisive cavalry engagement that resulted...
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Royalist cavalry under Prince Rupert of the Rhine routed the cavalry of Essex's vanguard at the Battle of Powick Bridge. Nevertheless, lacking infantry, the...
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Deane's initial attempts to cross the Powick Bridge (where Prince Rupert of the Rhine had won the Battle of Powick Bridge, his first victory, in 1642) failed...
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Charles Lucas (category Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge)
was wounded at the Battle of Powick Bridge, the first major engagement of the conflict. Early in 1643, Lucas raised a regiment of horse, with which he...
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Worcestershire (redirect from County of Worcester)
towns under the jurisdiction of the queen mother. In 1642, the Battle of Powick Bridge was the first major skirmish of the English Civil War. The county...
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Burton Derby Ashby-de-la-Zouch Stafford Lichfield Tutbury The Battle of Burton Bridge was fought between Royalist and Parliamentarian forces at Burton...
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English Civil War (redirect from War of the English Revolution)
cavalry commanders of the war, defeated a Parliamentary cavalry detachment under Colonel John Brown at the Battle of Powick Bridge, which crossed the...
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September 23 (redirect from 23rd of September)
1642 – First English Civil War: The Battle of Powick Bridge, the first engagement between the primary field armies of the Royalists and the Parliamentarians...
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Ferry. The forces of Prince Rupert beat them at the Battle of Powick Bridge on Powick Ham, and many of the fugitives re-crossed the river at Kempsey. However...
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Worcestershire in the English Civil War (category Military history of Worcestershire)
county where the first battle and last battle of the English Civil War took place. The first battle, the Battle of Powick Bridge, fought on 23 September...
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Worcester, England (redirect from City of Worcester)
of the English Civil War in 1642 but was swiftly occupied by the Royalists. Parliament briefly retook the city after the Battle of Powick Bridge of September...
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Stourbridge after his victory at the Battle of Powick Bridge, left the town on 17 October to join King Charles with 9 troops of horse and about 300 foot. If any...
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The Battle of Naseby took place on 14 June 1645 during the First English Civil War, near the village of Naseby in Northamptonshire. The Parliamentarian...
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Battle of Powick Bridge 21 September – Royalists defeat the Parliamentarians. Battle of Lleida 7 October – France and Catalonia defeat Spain. Battle of...
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cavalry at the Battle of Powick Bridge, where he was wounded, and the Battle of Edgehill. He accompanied his uncle Charles in the occupation of Oxford on 29...
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Cropredy Bridge Oxford Abingdon Newbridge Hanwell The Battle of Cropredy Bridge was fought on Saturday 29 June 1644 (9 July 1644 Gregorian) near Banbury...
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Basing The Battle of Alton (also known as the Storming of Alton), of the First English Civil War, took place on 13 December 1643 in the town of Alton, Hampshire...
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Edwin Sandys (Parliamentarian) (category Baronets in the Baronetage of England)
at the Battle of Powick Bridge. Sandys was mortally wounded having bravely led an ill-fated charge against forces commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine...
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Civil War and, as Governor of Worcester, he refused entry to the Parliamentary cavalry shortly before the Battle of Powick Bridge (22 September 1642) — the...
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Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp (redirect from Richard de Beauchamp, 2nd Baron Beauchamp of Powick)
Beauchamp of Powick (c. 1435 – 19 January 1502/3) was an English peer. He was the son of John Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp (fifth creation), 1st Lord of Powick...
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Edwin Sandys (1561–1629) (category Members of the Parliament of England for Plympton Erle)
(died 1642), of Wadham College, Oxford 1621, Colonel in the Parliamentary Army, died of wounds suffered at the Battle of Powick Bridge Mary (1607–1675)...
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raised a regiment of horse for the King's army and regained the post of commissary-general of horse. He was wounded at Battle of Powick Bridge on 23 September...
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The First Battle of Newbury was a battle of the First English Civil War that was fought on 20 September 1643 between a Royalist army, under the personal...
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The Battle of Tippermuir (also known as the Battle of Tibbermuir) (1 September 1644) was the first battle James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose, fought...
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Longhope (category Forest of Dean)
house of historic interest is Royal Spring, where Charles I is said to have stopped for refreshment in 1642 after the Battle of Powick Bridge during...
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Bridge (near the old ford), outside Aylesbury, by labourers digging pits for gravel, which were believed to belong to the fatalities from the battle....
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losing the convoy of silver and the Battle of Powick Bridge. Essex remained in Worcester for about a month before leaving with the bulk of his army for Warwickshire...
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occupation, as was the rest of the county. In 1642 the first major skirmish of the Civil War, the Battle of Powick Bridge, on the River Teme close to...
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Pagnell The Battle of Olney Bridge was a skirmish that occurred on 4 November 1643 during the First English Civil War just outside the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire...
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