Battle of Cheriton
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The Battle of Cheriton of 29 March 1644 was an important Parliamentarian victory during the First English Civil War. Sir William Waller's "Army of the Southern Association" defeated a Royalist force j
A historical reenactment of the battle
Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Forth and Earl of Brentford was a professional soldier and diplomat from Perthshire in Scotland. He spent nearly 30 years in the Swedish army, reaching the rank of lieuten
Patrick Ruthven, portrait by Georg Günther Kräill von Bemeberg, 1623
Ruthven as the newly created Earl of Forth, c. 1642