# otd birmingham pontefract

📅#OTD 1643, Prince Rupert storms
Parliament claimed that Rupert burned 80 houses & put 'divers to the Sword'.
The royalists accepted one or two houses were burned, but insisted that Rupert ordered 'the quenching of the fire' after victory.

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2021-04-03

📅#OTD 1645, Sir Marmaduke Langdale & his renowned Northern Horsemen defeat Parliamentarian cavalry at Melton Mowbray.
Langdale (known as 'The Ghost') was en-route to the relief of where the Northerners' friends were under siege.

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2021-02-25

📅#OTD 1644, Prince Rupert replaces the 71-year-old Earl of Forth & Brentford as Lord General of the royalist armies.
Despite being gouty, deaf and a hard drinker, Forth had fought bravely, being wounded at Gloucester, Newbury & Cheriton.

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2020-11-06

📅#OTD 1645, Shelford Priory, Nottinghamshire.
Sydenham Poyntz & John Hutchinson take 30 minutes to storm the royalist house & burn it. They kill 160 defenders.
Royalists sniping from the church tower of St Peter & St Paul's are smoked out.

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2020-11-03