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    of Royalists in the English Civil War against Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, the future Charles II of...
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    Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration...
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    Boscobel House (category Grade II* listed buildings in Shropshire)
    holiday home; but it is most famous for its role in the escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Today it is managed by English Heritage...
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    Jane Lane, Lady Fisher (category Wives of baronets)
    September 1689) played a role in the escape of Charles II in 1651 after the Battle of Worcester. She rode with Charles, disguised as her servant, from Staffordshire...
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    "White-ladies," one of the "Boscobel Tracts" that describe the events of the escape of Charles II from England after the Battle of Worcester (3 September...
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    painted five large pictures on wood, representing the escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester. Each painting is 7 feet (2.1 m) high; they range...
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  • The Great Escape II: The Untold Story is a 1988 American made-for-television action-adventure drama film and a sequel to The Great Escape (1963). It stars...
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    and a supporter of the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. He assisted with the escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester in September...
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  • The Moonraker (category Cultural depictions of Charles II of England)
    1952 play of the same title by Arthur Watkyn. It was released in 1958. The film depicts a fictionalised account of the escape of Charles II, arranged...
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    Charles II of Spain (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg, which had ruled...
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    Royal Oak (category Charles II of England)
    King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The tree was in Boscobel Wood, which was part of the...
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  • The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough and featuring James...
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    of Sir William Careless, a local Recusant who played an important part in the escape of Charles II from the parliamentary forces after the Battle of Worcester...
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    his escape from Zembla. Also in the parish is White Ladies Priory. Escape of Charles II Listed buildings in Boscobel National Statistics Archived 13 June...
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  • Battle of Upton (the start of the western encirclement of Worcester) 3 September, Battle of Worcester 3 September, the start of the escape of Charles II 6...
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    The escape of Charles II included various incidents, including one of his hiding from a Parliamentarian patrol in an oak tree in the grounds of Boscobel...
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  • the site of one of the earliest recorded sightings of ball lightning.[citation needed] Hinton Daubney played a role in the escape of Charles II from England...
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    Charles II (10 October 1332 – 1 January 1387), known as the Bad, was King of Navarre beginning in 1349, as well as Count of Évreux beginning in 1343,...
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    John Smith (priest, born 1799) (category Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge)
    the section in the Diary concerning the escape of Charles II from Worcester Castle with the longhand version of the same event Pepys published later. Later...
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    See Escape of Charles II Another local tradition has King Charles II hiding behind a large chimney in Bromsgrove's Black Cross Inn during his escape. This...
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  • Pendrell along with Francis Yates continued with Charles to Moseley Hall. This section of Charles's escape can be approximately followed by walking the Monarch's...
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    (1966). The Escape of Charles II, After the Battle of Worcester. Hodder and Stoughton. "Side view of Abbots' Leigh House, where Charles II took refuge...
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    Execution of Charles I, with his son Charles II. The term is also used to describe the reign of Charles II (1660–1685), and sometimes that of his younger...
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  • the short story by George Langelaan, and The Great Escape (1963), based on the personal account of Paul Brickhill. He directed the popular 1967 film To...
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    The "Great Escape" was a World War II mass escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III. It resulted in the murder of 50 recaptured escapees...
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  • Royal Escape is a historical novel written by Georgette Heyer about the escape of Charles II. It is set in 1651 during the English Commonwealth. Two years...
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    in England that approximates the escape route taken by King Charles II in 1651 after being defeated in the Battle of Worcester. It runs from Worcester...
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    I during the English civil war and also had a hand in the secret escape of Charles II into exile in 1651, as well as his reinstatement in 1660. Mary was...
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    royal residence at Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The story deals with the escape of Charles II in 1652, during the Commonwealth, and his final triumphant entry...
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    Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms. Charles was born...
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