Cheriton, 29 March 1644

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  The confrontation started over the outposts in the woods, but accellerated fast:


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Quote from: MengJiao on September 03, 2022, 11:46:58 AM

  The confrontation started over the outposts in the woods, but accellerated fast:

  After two hours of back and forth fighting, it looks like Waller's Parliamentary forces are slowly gaining the edge (and so they did -- its hard to say why this battle made such an impression on the Royalists -- they took it as a serious defeat though they got away with all their guns and so on -- apparently the fact that the Parliamentary cavalry did very well was the main source of horror):