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Battle of Powick Bridge - 1642
Royalists: Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Parliamentarians: Colonel Nathaniel Fiennes
Result: Royalists
Location: Worcester
The Battle of Powick Bridge, fought on 23 September 1642, was the first major cavalry engagement of the English Civil War. King Charles I of England had left London and raised his standard in Nottingham on 22 August 1642. Although some skirmishing had occurred throughout the country, it was on 13 September, that the main campaign of the First English Civil War opened. King Charles, in order to reach the armouries of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, and find recruits amongst his sympathisers and trained bands, and also to be in touch with his disciplined regiments in Ireland by way of Chester, moved westward from Nottingham through Cheshire to Shrewsbury. The Earl of Essex with an army of about 20,000 men followed suit by marching his army from Northampton to Worcester.
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