Aftermath of a different Edgehill

Prince Rupert and the Earl of Rochester manage to restrain the Royalist Horse and hit Essex in the rear, so to speak, utterly defeating the main Parliamentarian field army. Nightfall brings a close to the battle by which time Essex's force has lost upwards of seven thousand dead and wounded and five thousand captured.

I take it a crushing victory makes Charles less cautious about marching on London, but is this one victory enough to end the fighting?
 
Though this is plausible, Charles would have to consider the strength of the London Militia before marching against them. Otherwise, he would be defeatd and likely captured
 
Yeah that's what I'm wondering. IIRC with Essex's men and the Trained Bands, London could muster about 24,000 men to defend against the 12,000 Royalist troops available in OTL.

However, if you discount around half of those as being lost at Edgehill, the odds are evened significantly. I'm not sure what the London defences were like at the time, but it certainly makes it more of a possibility.
 
Yeah that's what I'm wondering. IIRC with Essex's men and the Trained Bands, London could muster about 24,000 men to defend against the 12,000 Royalist troops available in OTL.

However, if you discount around half of those as being lost at Edgehill, the odds are evened significantly. I'm not sure what the London defences were like at the time, but it certainly makes it more of a possibility.


Remember back then the God-fearing folk of England believed in elves & fairies, such a crushing victory by the royalists would seem like divine-reaffirmation of the king's right to rule.

Also everyone loves a winner.;)
 
I'm not sure, although the likelihood of the Parliamentarians raising an army at national as opposed to local level (In other words a force willing to cross their county's borders and wage offensive war) would be pretty much shot by a defeat at Edgehill, the Roundhead garrisons throughout the country will remain.
 
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