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5 July 1643 was the Battle of Lansdown in Somerset. Parliamentary forces under Sir William Waller were narrowly defeated by the Royalist western army; the Cornish Cavalier Sir Bevil Grenville was killed in the fighting.

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2020-07-05

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

24 June 1643 John Hampden died of his wounds sustained days before at the Battle of Chalgrove Field. His loss was a severe blow to the Parliamentarian cause, as he was a moderating force between the various factions in Parliament.

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2020-06-24

2 June 1643 Parliamentarian Midlands & Eastern commanders met at Nottingham: Lord Grey, Lord Willoughby, Oliver Cromwell, Sir John Gell & Capt. Hotham. Cromwell's plan to advance into Yorkshire to support the Fairfaxes was rejected.

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2020-06-02

Just moved here!
Today's Skippon....But I will call him lemonade in later posts😉👌🏻
( Since it's not Instagram where people are familiar with the nicknames I give them, I shall tell who is in my drawing besides the nickname )

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2020-05-17

11 May 1645 Parliamentary commander Sir John Meldrum was mortally wounded whilst besieging Castle. This was only days after he had survived a fall over a 200 foot cliff there, as his cloak then acted like a parachute!! 😳

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2020-05-11

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

20 April 1643 Prince Rupert's engineers detonate the first ever explosive mine used in England to breach the defences and retake Close.

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2020-04-20

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

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

27 December 1642 Parliamentary troops commanded by Sir William Waller took the town of Chichester. The following day, encouraged by Sir Arthur Hasilrige, some of the soldiers committed acts of iconoclasm in .

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2019-12-27

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

25 November 1644 Oliver Cromwell denounces the Earl of Manchester's leadership of the Eastern Association army in Parliament. The ensuing debates led to reforms in Parliament’s armies and an increased professionalism in its officers.

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2019-11-25

4 November 1643 Sir William Waller was appointed as Parliamentary major-general of the revived Southern Association army (Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire). Image in our collection.

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2019-11-04

We’ve added two more exquisite items today, loaned to us as part of our exhibit. They are portrait miniatures of Oliver and Henry Ireton by the circle of Samuel Cooper. These were last publicly displayed in 1866.

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2018-11-04

1648 Lord Grey is the most prominent MP involved in army support to expel moderates and guarantee action against Charles I.
https://t.co/WFcD2o0OYn

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2017-12-06

OTD 1649 sun rises on a republican England + new flag.Find out more .#EnglishCivilWar

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2016-01-31