What the records say
- When
- 13 Jul 1643
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 51.38° N, 1.98° W
- Description
- 1643 battle
Battle of Roundway Down
1643 battle of the First English Civil War
The Battle of Roundway Down was fought on 13 July 1643 at Roundway Down near Devizes, in Wiltshire during the First English Civil War. Despite being outnumbered and exhausted after riding overnight from Oxford, a Royalist cavalry force under Lord Wilmot won a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Army of the West under Sir William Waller.
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