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rdfs:label
  • Battle of Wigan Lane
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prov:wasDerivedFrom
skos:prefLabel
  • Battle of Wigan Lane
skos:altLabel
  • defeated
  • Wigan
  • Wigan Lane
clgo:causalties
  • 1 killed
  • 10 wounded
  • (Royalist claim)
  • (claim by Lilburne)
  • 700 killed
clgo:combatant
  • United Kingdom
  • Royalists
  • Parliamentarians
clgo:commander
clgo:date
  • 1651-08-25
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clgo:notes
  • *The Earl of Derby's memoir gives alternate strengths of 1800 Dragoons in Lilburnes initial force and just 600 gentlemen in his own neglecting all mention of his own foot though these accounts of the war are exaggerated.
clgo:place
clgo:result
  • Parliamentarian victory
clgo:strength
  • 100
  • 600
  • 200
  • 1,000
  • 603
  • 3,000
  • Total:
  • 2,100
  • (from Liverpool as well as volunteers with shotguns mounted as Dragoons)
  • (1 company of foot from Manchester)
  • (2 companies of Cheshire Trained Band of Foot)
  • (Colonel Robert Lilburne Regiment of Horse)
  • (Earl of Derby’s Regiment of Foot)
  • (Earl of Derby’s Regiment of Horse)
  • (one company ofJohn Birch'sRegiment of Foot)
  • 30 horse
  • 600-1,500
  • (Cromwell's 2 Regiments of Foot and detached company of horse)
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