Battle of Wigan Lane
Battle of Wigan Lane
Part of: English Civil War
| date | August 25, 1651 |
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| place | Wigan , England |
| output | Victory of the parliamentary troops |
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Almost half of the officers and soldiers |
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The Battle of Wigan Lane took place on August 25, 1651 during the Third English Civil War between royalists led by James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby , and parts of the New Model Army led by Colonel Robert Lilburne . The royalists were defeated and lost almost half of their officers and soldiers.
The Earl of Derby was also Lord of Mann at the same time and ordered that ten men from each parish on the Isle of Man were to be provided for the battle. In total there were 170 soldiers who provided the island.
David Craine claims in his book Manannan's Isle that "those who did not fall in the fighting were hunted to death across the country."
swell
- ^ D. Crane: Manannan's Isle . The Manx Museum and National Trust, 1995, ISBN 978-0-901106-10-0 .
literature
- David Sinclair: "History of Wigan" , Smiths Books, 1987 (complete Chapter III of Volume II)
