/ 51.864°N 2.2438°W / 51.864; -2.2438 Gloucester Bristol Stow Cirencester Tewkesbury The siege of Gloucester took place between 10 August and 5 September...
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site of the siege of Gloucester in 1643, during which the city held out against Royalist forces in the First English Civil War. A major attraction of the...
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Humpty Dumpty (category Cultural depictions of Richard III of England)
Parliamentary-held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War. This was on the basis of a contemporary account of the attack...
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successfully defended with the aid of the Earl of Essex against the King in the Siege of Gloucester of 1643. This new permanent settlement focused on...
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title cost him £3,000). He then fought in the Siege of Gloucester in August 1643 and the First Battle of Newbury on 20 September 1643, where he was killed...
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Battering ram (redirect from Siege Ram)
battering ram used in the siege of Gloucester in 1643, during the Civil War. However, the story is almost certainly untrue; during the siege, which lasted only...
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The Battle of Gloucester may refer to: Siege of Gloucester, a siege in England in 1643 during the First English Civil War Battle of Gloucester (1775), a...
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for the king at the Battle of Edgehill (23 October 1642) and at the Siege of Gloucester. By this time the hopelessness of the situation had completely...
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William Goffe (category Regicides of Charles I)
Earl of Essex, in 1643 this unit helped lift the Siege of Gloucester and fought at the First Battle of Newbury. During the 1644 Western Campaign, it was...
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Norfolkman.[citation needed] At Gloucester Astley commanded a division, and at the First Battle of Newbury he led the infantry of the royal army. With Ralph...
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lifting of the Siege of Gloucester in 1643, during which the city held out against Royalist forces during the First English Civil War. The lifting of the...
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manorial house, was the headquarters of King Charles during the Siege of Gloucester. It subsequently became the property of Major General William Selwyn in...
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English Civil War (redirect from War of the English Revolution)
army forced the king to raise the Siege of Gloucester and then brushed the Royalists aside at the First Battle of Newbury (20 September 1643), to return...
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1265 he was back, landing in Pembrokeshire, and taking part in the siege of Gloucester and the final royalist victory at Evesham. After the battle he was...
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Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447) was an English prince, soldier and literary patron. He was (as he styled...
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The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, began September 28, 1781, and ended on October 19, 1781, at...
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Parliamentarians were left without an effective army in the west of England. When Charles laid siege to Gloucester, Parliament was forced to muster a force under Essex...
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Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet (category Baronets in the Baronetage of England)
and heir, killed at the Siege of Gloucester. He was considered one of the most athletic men of his time. He published some of his father's poems, and...
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Henry de Montfort (category House of Montfort)
Warden of the Cinque Ports, and treasurer of Sandwich. When the siege of Gloucester began in 1265, Henry de Montfort and Humphrey de Bohun, holding the...
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the City Corporation in 1643, during the Civil War in advance of the Siege of Gloucester. In 1730 the Southgate Congregational Church was built on the...
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Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester (c. 1090 – 31 October 1147) (alias Robert Rufus, Robert de Caen (Latinised to Robertus de Cadomo), Robert Consul)...
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follows. Siege of Aratta (c. 2600 BC) this siege is semi or entirely mythical. Siege of Uruk (c. 2580 BC) Siege of Qabra (1780 BC) Siege of Hiritum (1764...
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Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester (7 January 1355 – 8 or 9 September 1397) was the fifth surviving son and youngest child of King Edward III of England...
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William Davenant (category Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford)
years later by king Charles following the siege of Gloucester. In 1645, after the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Naseby, he retired to Paris, where he became...
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First of June – 1794 – French Revolutionary Wars Siege of Gloucester – 1643 – English Civil War Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive – 1915 – World War I Battle of Grahamstown...
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Peter Daniell (category Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford)
following a shot received at the Siege of Gloucester in 1643 and left issue, another son Thomas was killed at the Battle of Brentford a year prior. Another...
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army forced the king to raise the siege of Gloucester and then brushed the Royalist army aside at the First Battle of Newbury on 20 September 1643. In...
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Beaumont baronets (category Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England)
colonel in the Royalist Army and was killed in action during the Siege of Gloucester in 1643. On his death the title passed to his younger brother, the...
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under Col Edward Massey, a veteran parliamentarian leader during the Siege of Gloucester. As Prince Rupert’s forces advanced north, towards Leicester, Massey’s...
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George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos (category Lord-lieutenants of Gloucestershire)
(1620–1655), was the son of Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos (c. 1580 – 10 August 1621) and Lady Anne Stanley, a descendant of King Henry VIII's sister...
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