What the records say
- When
- 13 Nov 1642
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 51.49° N, 0.27° W
- Description
- 1642 battle of the First English Civil War
Battle of Turnham Green
1642 first English Civil War battle
The Battle of Turnham Green took place on 13 November 1642 near the village of Turnham Green, at the end of the first campaigning season of the First English Civil War. The battle resulted in a standoff between the forces of King Charles I and the much larger Parliamentarian army under the command of the Earl of Essex.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green – The Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army, and fail to take London”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “битва при Тёрнем-Грине”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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