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This category contains historical battles fought as part of the English Civil Wars (1642–1651). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battles of the English Civil Wars .
The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War.
The Battle of South Harting was a relatively small military engagement that took place on the night of 23–24 November 1643 (Jul. Old Style) /3–4 December (Greg. New Style) in the village of South Harting, in West Sussex, England, during Lord Ralph Hopton's Southern Campaign of 1643–1644 during the second year of the First English Civil War.
The Battle of Roundway Down was fought on 13 July 1643 at Roundway Down near Devizes, in Wiltshire during the First English Civil War.Despite being outnumbered and exhausted after riding overnight from Oxford, a Royalist cavalry force under Lord Wilmot won a crushing victory over the Parliamentarian Army of the West under Sir William Waller.
21 March, Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold the last pitched battle of the First Civil War is a victory for the New Model Army 13 April, Siege of Exeter ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison. 5 May, Charles surrendered to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire
Map of Alton, 1666, 23 years after the Battle of Alton. Approximately 225 houses are depicted, indictating a population of around 1,125 (assuming 5 persons per household). [6] The Battle of Alton (also known as the Storming of Alton), [7] of the First English Civil War, took place on 13 December 1643 in the town of Alton, Hampshire, England.
The siege of Oxford comprised the English Civil War military campaigns waged to besiege the Royalist controlled city of Oxford, involving three short engagements over twenty-five months, which ended with a Parliamentarian victory in June 1646. The first engagement was in May 1644, during which King Charles I escaped, thus preventing a formal siege.
Sieges of the English Civil War (1642–1651). Pages in category "Sieges of the English Civil Wars" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.