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On this day in 1643, parliamentarians commanded by Sir John Meldrum capture Gainsborough - the 3rd time it had changed hands that year.
A small fleet from Hull had supported Meldrum's attack upon a royalist fort at Barton on Strather by bombarding it.

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2021-12-20

Her family is bound to this legacy since her ancestor, a royalist, during the French revolution, used this sword to escape from his execution. 3/10

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2021-12-07

3 December 1642 The Earl of Newcastle entered securing it for King Charles I. It would remain a Royalist stronghold for the next two years.

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2021-12-03

📅#OTD 1651,
Commonwealth troops attack a fort at Jamestown, spiking guns & taking prisoners.
They are part of a fleet of 7 ships (total 860 men) attempting to reduce royalist Barbados, which holds fast despite Charles II's defeat at Worcester the previous month.

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2021-11-22

⚔️#OTD 1645, Battle of Rowton Moor,
Both sides fire 'in the faces of one another, hacking and slashing ... neither party gained or lost a foot of ground, as if everyone were resolved there to breathe their last'.
Sir Marmaduke Langdale's royalists are defeated.

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2021-09-24

18 September 1644 was the Battle of Montgomery, the largest battle fought in Wales during the Royalist forces under Lord Byron were defeated by Sir John Meldrum, leaving the Parliamentarians in control of central Wales.

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2021-09-18

13 September 1645 was the battle of Philiphaugh near Selkirk. Covenanter forces under Lt Gen David Leslie decisively defeated Royalist forces under the Marquis of Montrose. Images of the generals from our collection.

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2021-09-13

11 September 1645, Prince Rupert surrendered the last Royalist port, to Sir Thomas Fairfax. Rupert had no option due to disease and being outgunned, but a furious Charles I stripped him of his offices. Images from our collection.

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2021-09-11

7 September 1642 the Royalist commander of George Goring surrendered the town under generous terms to Parliamentary forces under Sir William Waller. Thread 1/2

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2021-09-07

'The Sucklington Factions, or Roaring Boyes' (1641) alleged that some 'scorne an Alehouse' & instead 'daily haunts Tavernes', where 'by his liquor' they 'like the Elephant through the juice of are 'enraged unto bloud & most damnable resolutions'.

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2021-09-06

28 Aug 1647: James Butler, Earl of Ormond leaves for royalist exile on the continent (NPG) Later he would become a very infuential adviser to the exiled Charles II.

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2021-08-28

in 1644 the Earl of Essex refused the second summons to surrender from the royalist armies. Having invaded Cornwall, Essex was now trapped by the combined royal army. The closing stages of the Lostwithiel Campaign could now begin

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2021-08-10

Lt-Gen James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond (19 Oct 1610 London-21 July 1688 ).👨‍🎓. Lord Lieutenant Ireland. 1649-50 leading commander Royalist forces V Cromwellian. 1650s in exile with Charles II. Restoration; major figure! 🪦. https://t.co/HjwUFMTSR1

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2021-07-21

On this day 1643. Lord Willoughby of Parnham captured royalist Gainsborough, as well as the Earl of Kingston & 250 royalists.
Kingston's house holds out until the next day & upon its surrender 'a great store of treasure' was taken. But within weeks, the royalists retook the town.

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2021-07-20

⚔️#OTD 1643, Battle of Lansdown Hill,
Ralph Hopton's royalists fight their way up the 150 foot hill.
Overnight, the parliamentarians withdraw, but Hopton is then blinded by an accidental gunpowder explosion - 'hardly so much life as not to be numbered with the dead'.

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2021-07-05

John Hampden, Civil War-era Parliamentary leader famous for his opposition to Charles I over ship money, died 1643 from wounds sustained in a skirmish with Royalists. In the early 19th c., British radicals named their debating societies ‘Hampden Clubs’ in his honour.

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2021-06-24

Weeping willow allegory of death of Louis XVI pamphlet with silhouettes of royal family members; made by French royalists in exile in Britain 1795.

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2021-06-14

During the third & final siege of Basing House, Oliver Cromwell himself, prior to storming the stronghold (on 14 October 1645) spent an agonising night meditating on Psalm 115: 'Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield'. https://t.co/pA1GLOTl1u

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2021-06-05

📅#OTD 1648, royalist Marmaduke Langdale takes with 120 horse.
The Mayor had the drawbridge raised, but let it down upon sight of Langdale's commission from the Prince of Wales.
Next day, royalists take offering the Scottish army a route into England

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2021-04-28

At the time Tassaert painted this work, France was undergoing considerable political upheaval. In 1848, the country was wracked by a civil war between royalist and republican forces. ➔ Further reading https://t.co/aqmRl4AYfp
Heaven and Hell 1850 Octave Tassaert

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2021-04-24