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By Mark Vine,Semirani Vine,Professor Ronald Hutton

ISBN-10: 099278350X

ISBN-13: 9780992783501

In 1645, numerous royalist plotters in the dual cities of Weymouth and Melcombe at the Dorset coast conspired to carry the ports again into the regulate of King Charles 1. it's been instructed that he wanted a secure south coast port at which to land a tremendous French military which he was hoping could convey a decisive blow and finish the resistance of the Parliamentarians whom he have been scuffling with for nearly 3 years.

The conspirator’s plans have been virtually winning, yet their meant sufferer, Colonel William Sydenham, commander of the Parliamentary garrison and MP for Melcombe, controlled to get such a lot of his strength into that city, notwithstanding he misplaced a miles enjoyed and revered brother and fellow soldier, Francis, within the preliminary attack. quickly, a two-week-long internecine bombardment was once happening among the factions.

In the 3rd week, what the coup de grace arrived within the form of the archetypal cavalier basic, George, Lord Goring and his 6,500 robust military, which intended that Sydenham’s tiny yet obdurate garrison of simply 1,300 souls, have been now outnumbered six to at least one. it will definitely simply be a question of time ahead of Melcombe too fell to the King’s Army.

Underestimating Colonel William Sydenham, the eldest son of an area Dorset landowner, used to be Goring’s first and largest mistake, for not just did Sydenham reach retaking Weymouth, yet he additionally withstood the total may of Goring’s army reaction, providing a “miraculous victory” and finishing the King’s aspirations of having the higher hand in Dorset.

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