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The Royalists had intended to send the king's nephew and foremost field commander, Prince Rupert, to the northwest to retrieve the situation early in 1644. Rupert set up headquarters in Shrewsbury, from where he led a force to the Relief of Newark.
- 28 May 1644
- Royalist victory
On 6 April Tong Castle was captured by the Royalists under the command of Prince Rupert. [4] In June the king was in Shrewsbury during the campaign that led to the Battle of Cropredy Bridge. [5] The same month Oswestry was taken from the Royalists by the Earl of Denbigh.
Prince Rupert was 50 miles to the south of Shrewsbury in an attempt to capture Worcester. Parliament ordered the Earl of Essex and his army to defend Worcester from Prince Rupert. Essex sent 10 men, led by Colonel John Brown, ahead of main force upon nearing Worcester.
May 10, 2017 · Prince Rupert, the glamorous cavalry commander, arrived in Shrewsbury in February 1644 to make the town his base, but then led his army into Yorkshire, where he was decisively defeated at Marston Moor in July.
Feb 11, 2018 · The royalist command in Cornwall was held by Ralph Hopton featured at the start of this post with his wife Elizabeth. In 1642 he and his men had driven the Parliamentarians from Launceston. Whilst Hopton was unable to secure Devon at this time, Cornwall was firmly royalist.
In 1644, Rupert led the spectacular relief of the siege of York but then in July, he was defeated by a parliamentary army at Marston Moor, losing York and the north of England for the royalists.
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Prince Rupert was marching across the North of England to relieve a Royalist army trapped in York. News of Rupert’s position in the North reached Oliver Cromwell, the Parliamentary Lieutenant General, and an army was sent to meet the Royalists.
