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?
I take it a crushing victory makes Charles less cautious about marching on London, but is this one victory enough to end the fighting?