Bellum Civile - Lord Hopton's Account of the retreat from Lansdown, Siege of Devizes and Battle of Roundway Down in 1643

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Hopton was injured twice at the Battle of Lansdowne, once by a musket ball in his

arm and by being close to an exploding amminition cart. He was badly burned and almost blinded. He saw nothing of these events but records what his officers told him.

This extract starts on page 55 and with the endof the Battle of Lansdown on July 7th, 1643.

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The Siege of Devizes continues .

The Siege continues, news of the Relief by Lord Wilmot from Oxford, the battle of Roundway.

Waller defeated at Roundway Down, Hoptons forces go to Bath then Brstol ....

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