Charles Watches Defeat at Rowton Heath: Royalists Collapse
Parliamentarian cavalry defeated a Royalist army personally commanded by King Charles I at Rowton Heath, forcing the king to watch the destruction of his relief force from the walls of Chester. The defeat ended Charles's last serious attempt to break the Parliamentarian siege of the northwest and confirmed the irreversible decline of the Royalist military cause.
September 24, 1645
381 years ago
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