Battle of Roundway Down

Quando

13 de jul. de 1643

Tipo

Batalha

Coordenadas

51.38° N, 1.98° W

Description

1643 battle

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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