The sieges of Taunton were a series of three blockades during the First English Civil War. The town of Taunton, in Somerset, was considered to be of strategic...
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Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England. Taunton may also refer to: Taunton, Queensland, a locality Taunton National Park, a scientific national...
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English Civil War Sieges of Taunton (1644–1645) – First English Civil War Siege of Duncannon (1645) – Irish Confederate Wars Siege of Chester (1645) –...
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Taunton (/ˈtɔːntən/) is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a minster church. Its population in 2011 was 64,621. Its thousand-year...
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Adrian Scrope (category Alumni of Hart Hall, Oxford)
and took charge of the king on behalf of the Council, Scrope replaced Graves as colonel. Holmby London Bristol Oxford Blandford Taunton Edgehill Yarmouth...
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Somerset (redirect from County of Somerset)
largely Parliamentarian, with key engagements being the Sieges of Taunton and the Battle of Langport. In 1685, the Monmouth Rebellion was played out...
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Somerset Trained Bands (category Trained Bands of England)
present at the capture of Taunton in June 1643 and the Siege of Lyme Regis (April–June 1644). Afterwards it was besieged in Taunton in July 1644, and fought...
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Robert (1995). The Sieges of Taunton 1644–1645. Bristol: Stuart Press. ISBN 978-1-85804-057-8. Moseley, Sophia (18 June 2015). "The Siege of Lyme Regis – what...
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Taunton Castle is a castle built to defend the town of Taunton, Somerset, England. It has origins in the Anglo Saxon period and was later the site of...
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newly formed New Model Army marched west to relieve Taunton, before being ordered back to lay siege to Oxford, the Royalist wartime capital. On 31 May...
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