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1275:. Historic England. Archived from
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1091:National Heritage List for England
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1367:Battles of the English Civil Wars
1297:"Lansdown Hill and Roundway Down"
1087:Register of Historic Battlefields
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134:Parliamentarian strategic victory
1344:Rodgers, Colonel H.C.B. (1968).
1295:Plant, David (1 December 2009).
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1081:, who died after the battle in
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1250:"The Battle of Lansdown Hill"
27:1643 English Civil War battle
1372:Military history of Somerset
1050:, at the place where he fell
1299:. British Civil War Project
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1252:. The Battlefields Trust.
1387:History of Bath, Somerset
1234:"Battle of Lansdown Hill"
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1089:which is part of the
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18:Battle of Lansdown
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143:Belligerents
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1303:7 September
1109:Vivian 1895
1083:Cold Ashton
1013:breastworks
955:forced the
953:Lord Hopton
890:Bovey Heath
841:2nd Chester
836:Philiphaugh
831:2nd Bristol
786:3rd Taunton
776:2nd Taunton
742:2nd Newbury
732:1st Taunton
727:1st Chester
707:Lostwithiel
627:Boldon Hill
568:Heptonstall
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523:1st Bristol
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101:5 July 1643
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1356:Categories
1208:References
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993:Batheaston
959:under Sir
935:battle of
915:Lagganmore
905:3rd Oxford
895:Torrington
861:Annan Moor
791:2nd Oxford
756:Inverlochy
712:Tippermuir
662:1st Oxford
647:Lyme Regis
533:Gloucester
409:Chichester
394:1st Exeter
334:Portsmouth
234:60 wounded
215:1,500 foot
206:4,000 foot
36:51°25′53″N
1325:cite book
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1260:9 January
1097:Citations
1039:Aftermath
989:Claverton
949:Royalists
937:Lansdowne
796:Leicester
612:Newcastle
513:Lansdowne
483:Wakefield
453:Lichfield
448:Camp Hill
389:Tadcaster
369:Brentford
364:Aylesbury
257:Lansdowne
232:20 killed
149:Royalists
39:2°24′04″W
1254:Archived
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941:Lansdown
821:Hereford
816:Langport
781:Auldearn
766:Weymouth
737:Carlisle
702:Ormskirk
682:Oswestry
637:Cheriton
607:Nantwich
538:2nd Hull
478:Stratton
359:Edgehill
339:Plymouth
324:1st Hull
199:Strength
185:Colonel
130:Royalist
119:Somerset
106:Location
70:Part of
1065:Devizes
967:Prelude
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657:Lincoln
588:Arundel
553:Winceby
463:Reading
210:16 guns
180:†
132:victory
113:, near
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