Leicester, battle of, 31 May 1645 (England)

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Royalist victory of the first English Civil War. In an attempt to divert Parliament from the siege of his main base at Oxford, Charles I launched an attack on Leicester, which was taken by storm although with heavy loses. The attack on Leicester succeeded in it's aim to divert Fairfax from Oxford, but he intercepted Charles on his march back to Oxford, and defeated him at the battle of Naseby (14 June)
cover The English Civil War , , Richard Holmes & Peter Young, an early work by one of the countries best known military historians, this is a superb single volume history of the war, from it's causing to the last campaigns of the war and on to the end of the protectorate. cover cover cover

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Books on the English Civil War
Subject Index: English Civil War

JR, 11 December 2000