First Battle of Newbury
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The First Battle of Newbury was a battle of the First English Civil War that was fought on 20 September 1643 between a Royalist army, under the personal command of King Charles, and a Parliamentarian
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, whose capture of Bristol represented the high-water mark for the Royalist cause
Sir Edward Massie; the Royalist advance on Gloucester was based on the assumption that he would surrender the city, which he did not.
First battle of Newbury site, facing South
Essex enters London after the battle
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, KB, PC was an English Parliamentarian and soldier during the first half of the 17th century. With the start of the Civil War in 1642, he became the first Captain-Ge
First Battle of Newbury
…War that was fought on 20 September 1643 between a Royalist army, under the personal command of King Charles, and a Parliamentarian force led by the Earl of Essex. Following a year of Royalist battlefield successes, in which they took Banbury, Oxford and Reading without conflict before storming Bristol, the…
Portrait of Robert Devereux 3rd Earl of Essex
Robert Devereux as a child with his mother Frances Walsingham, countess of Essex by Robert Peake the elder, 1594
Robert Devereux depicted as Captain General on horseback, an engraving by Wenceslas Hollar
Robert Devereux depicted as Captain General on foot, an engraving by Wenceslas Hollar.