The Battle of Sedgemoor was the last and decisive engagement between the Kingdom of England and rebels led by the Duke of Monmouth during the Monmouth...
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and Moors. Historically the area was known as the site of the Battle of Sedgemoor. Sedgemoor gave its name to a local government district formed on 1...
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Monmouth Rebellion (redirect from Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion)
Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685 by a royal army commanded by Feversham and Churchill. Monmouth was beheaded for treason on 15 July 1685. Many of his...
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chronological list of events that different sources cite as the last battle on British or English soil or a related title: Battle of Sedgemoor, Somerset, England...
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Alice Lisle (section After Sedgemoor)
of the English county of Hampshire, who was executed for harbouring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion at the Battle of Sedgemoor....
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Bloody Assizes (category History of Somerset)
Bloody Assizes were a series of trials started at Winchester on 25 August 1685 in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion...
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Westonzoyland (category Villages in Sedgemoor)
battle in England, the Battle of Sedgemoor, was fought here on 6 July 1685, near the Bussex area to the north of the village. It was the final battle...
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Taunton the Duke of Monmouth crowned himself King of England in a rebellion, defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor. Judge Jeffreys led the Bloody Assizes in the...
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17th-century Swedish invasion (The Deluge). In the 1685 battle of Sedgemoor, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, fielded a 5000 strong peasant unit armed with...
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Charles's eldest son, the Duke of Monmouth, led a rebellion against James II, but was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685, captured and executed...
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Marlborough Lines (category Installations of the British Army)
(named after the Battle of Blenheim in 1704), Sedgemoor (named after the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685) and Ramillies (named after the Battle of Ramillies in...
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Somerset Levels (category Environment of Somerset)
the time of the Roman Empire. A number of Saxon charters document the incorporation of areas of moor in estates. In 1685, the Battle of Sedgemoor was fought...
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Life Guards (United Kingdom) (redirect from Regiment of Life Guards)
action during the Third Anglo-Dutch War in 1672 and then at the Battle of Sedgemoor during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685. The 3rd and 4th troops were...
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Bridgwater (category Towns in Sedgemoor)
The Battle of Sedgemoor, where the Monmouth Rebellion was finally crushed in 1685, was fought nearby. Notable buildings include the Church of St Mary...
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Lorna Doone (section Development of the novel)
her wealth, and side with Monmouth. Monmouth is defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor, and his associates are sought for treason. Although innocent, John...
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march through Somerset at the beginning of July would lead his army to Sedgemoor, and to the decisive battle of July 6. Carter, Stephen M. (2020). Fighting...
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Barbados (redirect from Name of Barbados)
followers of the Duke of Monmouth after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor, as well as the descendants of Irish indentured labourers and prisoners imported...
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Clifton Moor Skirmish (redirect from Skirmish of Clifton)
a battle, and the Battle of Reading (1688) is discounted as a street fight, then the last pitched battle on English soil was the battle of Sedgemoor fought...
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Percy Kirke (category Governors of the Dominion of New England)
regiment at the Battle of Sedgemoor in July 1685 during the Monmouth Rebellion and then ruthlessly hunted down the fugitives after the battle. Brigadier Kirke...
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in 1685, Sarsfield rejoined the army and fought in the decisive Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion. James was keen to promote Catholics...
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Somerset (redirect from County of Somerset)
Battle of Sedgemoor at Westonzoyland, the last pitched battle fought in England. Arthur Wellesley took his title, Duke of Wellington from the town of...
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Royal Wiltshire Militia (redirect from Red Regiment of Wiltshire Militia)
and was present at the Battle of Sedgemoor. It became a battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment in 1881 and trained thousands of reservists and recruits...
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vanquished after the Battle of Sedgemoor. He was rewarded with a knighthood of the Garter and the colonelcy of the first troop of Life Guards, and in 1686...
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English claims to the French throne (redirect from English "Kings of France")
1st Duke of Monmouth. Styled "King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland" (20 June – 6 July 1685). Captured after the Battle of Sedgemoor by James...
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definition of "battle", for which there are different interpretations. Preston was a siege rather than a pitched battle, so the Battle of Sedgemoor fought...
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army at night, in an attempt at surprise, but were defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor. The King's forces, led by Feversham and Churchill, quickly dispersed...
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brought to trial in the Tower of London by the infamous "Hanging Judge Jefferies". Also after the Battle of Sedgemoor, an elderly local lady, Alice Lisle...
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The Shire (redirect from List of Thains of the Shire)
with the help of Frodo and his companions on their return at the Battle of Bywater (the final battle of the War of the Ring). The trees of the Shire were...
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their various adventures, leading up to the climactic Battle of Sedgemoor, the last pitched battle on English soil. Frederick Jaeger as Joachim Elizabeth...
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Soho (category Districts of the City of Westminster)
hunting cry. James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, used "soho" as a rallying call for his men at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685, half a century after...
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