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| Part of the Second English Civil War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Parliamentarians | Royalists and Scots | ||||||
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| Oliver Cromwell | Duke of Hamilton | ||||||
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| 8,500 | 24,000 | ||||||
- See Battle of Preston (1715) for the battle of the Jacobite Rising.
The Battle of Preston (17 August – 19 August 1648), fought largely at Walton-le-Dale near Preston in Lancashire, resulted in a victory by the troops of Oliver Cromwell over the Royalists and Scots commanded by Hamilton. The Parliamentarian victory presaged the end of the Second English Civil War.
Hamilton had allowed his units to disperse across the country, with stragglers up to 50 miles behind the advance during the march south. Although heavily outnumbered, Cromwell's better equipped troops were able to defeat the various contingents of the Scottish-Royalist force in detail. Neither side was equipped with artillery, each side relied most heavily on its pikemen.
Hamilton was captured by the Parliamentarians on the 25th of August.
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