Sedgemoor, Battle of (1685) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
..., Battle of (July 16, 1685 ) Defeat of an English rebellion led by the Duke of Monmouth against James II . An attempt to launch a surprise night attack by the untrained rebel forces ended in...
Sedgemoor, Battle of (6 July 1685) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
..., Battle of ( 6 July 1685 ) The decisive battle of Monmouth’s Rebellion , fought near Westonzoyland in Somerset. Monmouth was blocked in his retreat from Bristol by the army of James II , commanded by Lord Feversham and John Churchill (later Duke of Marlborough ). Monmouth attempted a night attack to give his raw recruits some advantage over the professional royalist army, but his plans miscarried and he suffered a crushing defeat. The battle proved to be the last fought on English...
Sedgemoor, battle of Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
..., battle of , 1685 . Sedgemoor was that most desperate of ventures, a surprise night attack. Monmouth landed at Lyme Regis on 11 June 1685 and was proclaimed king at Taunton on the 20th. But he gained little support and his scratch army failed to take Bristol or Bath. He was pursued to Bridgwater by a royal army under Lord Feversham, with John Churchill, the future duke of Marlborough , as second in command. The royal army drew up east of Bridgwater, behind the line of the Bussex rhine, a waterlogged ditch. On the night of 5 July, Monmouth led out...
Sedgemoor, battle of (1685) Reference library
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The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
..., battle of , 1685 . Sedgemoor was that most desperate of ventures, a surprise night attack. Monmouth landed at Lyme Regis on 11 June 1685 and was proclaimed king at Taunton on the 20th. But he gained little support from the gentry or nobility and his scratch army failed to take Bristol or Bath. He was pursued to Bridgwater by a royal army under Lord Feversham , with John Churchill , the future duke of Marlborough , as second in command. Monmouth’s men outnumbered their opponents, but Feversham’s were trained soldiers. The royal army drew up east...
Sedgemoor, battle of (1685) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Military History
..., battle of ( 1685 ). When the Catholic James II succeeded to the throne in February 1685 , his half-brother the Duke of Monmouth was pressed to lead a rising which would be synchronized with a rebellion by the Earl of Argyll in Scotland. Monmouth landed at Lyme Regis on 11 June and was proclaimed king in Taunton. Local men—but few notables—flocked to join him, and he had the best of a clash with the Earl of Feversham's royal army on the 27th. He then heard that Argyll had been executed, and fell back to Bridgwater. Feversham followed, establishing...
Sedgemoor, Battle of Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
..., Battle of a battle fought in 1685 on the plain of Sedgemoor in Somerset, in which the forces of the rebel Duke of Monmouth , who had landed in Dorset as champion of the Protestant cause and pretender to the throne, were decisively defeated by James II's...
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Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of (1649–85) Quick reference
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...of ( 1649–85 ) English noble , illegitimate son of Charles II . As captain general, Monmouth defeated the Scots at Bothwell Bridge ( 1679 ). Allied with the Earl of Shaftesbury , he became leader of the Protestant opposition to the succession of the Duke of York (later James II ). The discovery of a plot ( 1683 ) forced Monmouth into exile in Holland. Upon James' accession ( 1685 ), he launched a rebellion. Despite initial success, Monmouth lacked the support of the nobility and was defeated by the Duke of Marlborough at the Battle of Sedgemoor. He...
Monmouth's rebellion Quick reference
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... of the Duke of Monmouth to depose the new Catholic king, James II , was supported enthusiastically by Protestant craftsmen and labourers in Dorset and Somerset. Most of the local gentry did not join the rebellion. Monmouth was proclaimed king in Taunton, but was defeated at the battle of Sedgemoor. Over 500 of his followers were killed in battle; many others were hanged or transported to the West Indies in the terrible retribution that followed under Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys ( 1645–89 ). The ‘Bloody Assize’ has remained etched in the folk memory of...
‘Duke's Reappearance, The’ Reference library
Oxford Reader's Companion to Hardy
...of the Saturday Review , it was collected in A Changed Man and Other Tales . In the latter version ‘several slight touches were added to identify it as a family tradition’ (Purdy 153). When he gave the manuscript to Edward *Clodd , Hardy added a footnote to the first line: ‘Christopher Swetman was one of the author's ancestors on the maternal side’ (Purdy 155). In the Life Hardy states that the *Swetman family ‘seem to have been involved in the Monmouth rising’, and that one ‘indubitably true’ family tradition held that ‘after the Battle of Sedgemoor [...
