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1076:Register of Historic Battlefields
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123:Parliamentarian strategic victory
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1284:Plant, David (1 December 2009).
932:, was fought on 5 July 1643, at
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1205:The civil war in the south west
1070:, who died after the battle in
1068:monument to Sir Bevil Grenville
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1239:"The Battle of Lansdown Hill"
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16:1643 English Civil War battle
1361:Military history of Somerset
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206:Unknown number of guns
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388:Muster Green
373:Piercebridge
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333:Babylon Hill
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132:Belligerents
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1292:7 September
1098:Vivian 1895
1072:Cold Ashton
1002:breastworks
944:forced the
942:Lord Hopton
879:Bovey Heath
830:2nd Chester
825:Philiphaugh
820:2nd Bristol
775:3rd Taunton
765:2nd Taunton
731:2nd Newbury
721:1st Taunton
716:1st Chester
696:Lostwithiel
616:Boldon Hill
557:Heptonstall
537:1st Newbury
512:1st Bristol
202:2,500 horse
193:2,000 horse
155:Lord Hopton
90:5 July 1643
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1345:Categories
1197:References
986:Marshfield
982:Batheaston
948:under Sir
924:battle of
904:Lagganmore
894:3rd Oxford
884:Torrington
850:Annan Moor
780:2nd Oxford
745:Inverlochy
701:Tippermuir
651:1st Oxford
636:Lyme Regis
522:Gloucester
398:Chichester
383:1st Exeter
323:Portsmouth
223:60 wounded
204:1,500 foot
195:4,000 foot
25:51°25′53″N
1314:cite book
1308:. Exeter.
1249:9 January
1086:Citations
1028:Aftermath
978:Claverton
938:Royalists
926:Lansdowne
785:Leicester
601:Newcastle
502:Lansdowne
472:Wakefield
442:Lichfield
437:Camp Hill
378:Tadcaster
358:Brentford
353:Aylesbury
246:Lansdowne
221:20 killed
138:Royalists
28:2°24′04″W
1243:Archived
1063:. (sic)
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930:Lansdown
810:Hereford
805:Langport
770:Auldearn
755:Weymouth
726:Carlisle
691:Ormskirk
671:Oswestry
626:Cheriton
596:Nantwich
527:2nd Hull
467:Stratton
348:Edgehill
328:Plymouth
313:1st Hull
188:Strength
174:Colonel
119:Royalist
108:Somerset
95:Location
59:Part of
1054:Devizes
956:Prelude
815:Kilsyth
646:Lincoln
577:Arundel
542:Winceby
452:Reading
199:16 guns
169:†
121:victory
102:, near
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865:Newark
795:Alford
790:Naseby
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611:Newark
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115:Result
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970:Bath
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