Issue 123 - The Battle of Bovey Heath

In WS&S 123 we look at the Rise of the Redcoat, the decades between the English Civil War and the War of the Spanish Succession. In this online article, we look at the very start of the period, when during the (first) English Civil War, cavalry of the New Model Army routed a detachment under Lord Wentworth at Bovey Heath.


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