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30 June 1643 was the Battle of Adwalton Moor in Yorkshire, where Royalist forces under the Earl of Newcastle defeated Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax. As a result all of Yorkshire was left under Royalist control except for Hull & Bradford.

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2020-06-30

📅#OTD in 1643, a royalist plot to capture London is uncovered.
Lady D'Aubingy smuggled the King's commission under her dress. But an intercepted letter of the Earl of Dover's, urging his wife to take the children & leave London, raises alarm. The plotters are arrested and ...

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2020-05-31

Second base of pike men completed for the Royalist infantry project ☺

Update video on the channel - https://t.co/98oOGZupY4

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2020-05-20

1643: Royalists out of Newark attack Lord Willoughby at Grantham. In his first independent action as a cavalry commander, Colonel Oliver Cromwell leads a charge which routs the Royalist force.

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2020-05-13

4 May 1643 Royalist forces commanded by William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, stormed the town of after a skirmish at the town's bridge, defended by local Parliamentarians including 30 boys from the town's grammar school.

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2020-05-04

Ines, Hedly, FB : W, since when did you become so royalist?

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2020-04-30

1521 Decisive Battle of (part of the Revolt of the Comuneros) was won by Royalist forces of Charles I, leading to the capture of main rebel leaders (Juan de Padilla, Juan Bravo, Francisco Maldonado) thus ending the rebellion.

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2020-04-23

OTD in 1643, Earl of Essex besieged Reading. Disaster dogged the Royalists. Governor Aston struck on the head in a cannonade (roof tile) & knocked unconscious. His deputy surrenders 10 days later despite the King attacking Essex outside town. Was it treachery?

Essex L & Aston R

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2020-04-15

9 April 1644 Parliamentarian forces under Sir William Waller stormed Winchester. They captured the town but the Royalist garrison held out in the castle.

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2020-04-09

Le 29 mars 1796, « Charette » est fusillé.
Il est le général de l'armée royaliste lors de la guerre de Vendée.
Brave parmi les braves, il fait face à la mort en refusant de se faire bander les yeux et en donnant, lui même, l'ordre de tirer à ses bourreaux.

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2020-03-29

Now they have sent a positive case of to Scotland. Wrapped in a royal. No testing for the frontline workers yet this is tested🤔 Even royalists must smell that.

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2020-03-25

I am tempted with getting a box of these and using them as Royalist troops at the second siege of Lichfield who have been badly equipped. Is this reasonable?

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2020-03-18

11 March 1645 at in Wiltshire Parliamentary forces under Sir William Waller and Oliver Cromwell surprised a party of 400 Royalist Horse on their way to join Lord Goring; only thirty escaped.

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2020-03-11

And complete! This is for a zine going down in the discord! My random character pick was the royalist Rene, a good excuse to practice some armour.

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2020-03-06

17 Jan 1649: 2nd peace between royalist Earl of & confederates of A fine mess it turned out! (NPG)

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2020-01-17

Adding colour to my illustration of Royalists constructing the Civil War defences at Sandal Castle. https://t.co/w3V5UYUS5w

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2020-01-07

Here's some special art for my game, Austoria: The Royalist (tentative name), drawn by my talented artist, !

Happy holidays and have an amazing new year!

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2020-01-01

13 December 1643 in a surprise attack, Sir William Waller's Parliamentarian forces stormed Alton in Hampshire. The Royalist defenders conducted a last stand in the Church of St Lawrence, which still has scars of the fighting today.

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2019-12-13

6 December 1642 Royalist forces under William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle defeated Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax at leaving Parliamentarian forces in Yorkshire divided. Newcastle then took the opportunity to secure Pontefract.

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2019-12-06

“What are the crying sins of this our State”
Barebones woodcut illustrating a Royalist broadside poem, ‘An Elegie and Epitaph upon ... Lord Francis Villars’ printed in London, 1648. Unique copy held

https://t.co/kKnVNvbcrI

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2019-11-20