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Battle of Cheriton - 1644
Parliamentarians: Sir William Waller
Royalists: Earl of Forth, Lord Hopton
Result: Parliamentarian victory
Location: near Cheriton
The Battle of Cheriton was an important Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War. It took place on 29 March 1644 and resulted in the defeat of a Royalist army, which threw King Charles I onto the defensive for the remainder of the year.Early in 1644, a Royalist army under Lord Hopton faced a Parliamentarian army under Sir William Waller in the southern counties of England. After some reverses during the previous December, culminating in the Battle of Alton, Hopton had withdrawn to Winchester to regroup and recruit. He was joined here by a detachment from the King's main Oxford Army under the Earl of Forth, who unwillingly took command of the army. They resumed their advance eastward early in March
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