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of Worcester - pre battle timeline |
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| The
rough position before the fighting began |
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Follow
the ebbs and flows of the Battle of Worcester as it developed on the
3rd of September 1651. |
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Charles
had been in exile in France and landed in Scotland on the 23rd June
1650.
The Scottish army lost the battle of Dunbar to Cromwell's Parliamentary
forces on the
3rd September 1650.
Charles crossed into England at the head of a Scottish army on 1st
August 1651.
On the 22nd of August Charles and his army arrived in Worcester and
began to fortify the city against the expected attack.
It wasn't until the 27th of August that Cromwell's Parliamentarian
forces arrived at Evesham.
Cromwell set about cutting of Charles's escape routes and laying siege
to the city.
The Royalists were determined to stop The Parliamentarians crossing
to the west bank of the River Severn, and so sent troops to Upton
on Severn, and demolished the middle of the bridge.
Unfortunately they left a plank across the middle of the bridge and
Major General Lambert's
troops fought their way across and into the town.
The famous Pepperpot Tower in Upton still bears the scars of the fighting.
The Scots now took up defensive positions on the Worcester side of
the River Teme.
They planned to hold Powick
bridge, the scene of the first clash of the Civil War nine years earlier.
The Parliamentary forces now took up positions on the high ground
to the east of the city walls.
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