Battle of Langport - wikipedia Battle of Langport Battle of Langport Part of English Civil War The site of the battle Date 10 July 1645 Location Langport, near Yeovil, Somerset 51 ° 02 ′ 31 '' N 2 ° 48 ′ 04 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 51.04194 ° N 2.80111 ° W ﻿ / 51.04194 ; - 2.80111 Coordinates : 51 ° 02 ′ 31 '' N 2 ° 48 ′ 04 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 51.04194 ° N 2.80111 ° W ﻿ / 51.04194 ; - 2.80111 Result Parliamentarian victory Belligerents Parliamentarians Royalists Commanders and leaders Sir Thomas Fairfax George, Lord Goring Strength 10,000 7,000 Casualties and losses unknown 300 killed 500 captured First English Civil War 1st Hull Portsmouth Powick Bridge Kings Norton Edgehill Aylesbury Brentford Chichester Turnham Green Braddock Down Leeds 1st Middlewich Hopton Heath Seacroft Moor Camp Hill Lichfield Reading Ripple Field Sourton Down Stratton Wakefield 1st Worcester Chalgrove Field Adwalton Moor Burton Bridge Lansdowne Roundway Down 1st Bristol Gainsborough Gloucester Aldbourne Chase 1st Newbury 2nd Hull Heptonstall Winceby Olney Basing House Alton 2nd Middlewich Nantwich Lathom Newark Boldon Hill Stourbridge Heath Cheriton Selby Lyme Regis York Lincoln Bolton Tipton Green Cropredy Bridge Marston Moor Ormskirk Lostwithiel Montgomery 2nd Newbury Taunton Scarborough Naseby Langport 2nd Bristol Chester Rowton Heath Torrington Stow - on - the - Wold Newark Oxford 2nd Worcester The Battle of Langport was a Parliamentarian victory late in the First English Civil War which destroyed the last Royalist field army and gave Parliament control of the West of England, which had hitherto been a major source of manpower, raw materials and imports for the Royalists. The battle took place on 10 July 1645 near the small town of Langport, which lies south of Bristol. Contents 1 Campaign 2 Battle 3 Results 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links Campaign Taunton had been captured by the Parliamentarian army under the Earl of Essex in June 1644. After Essex 's army was forced to surrender at Lostwithiel in Cornwall in September, the Royalists maintained a siege of Taunton, although the town was briefly relieved by Sir William Waller in late November. When determining strategy for 1645, King Charles I had despatched George, Lord Goring, the Lieutenant General of Horse ( cavalry ), to the West Country with orders to retake Taunton and other Parliamentarian outposts in the area. Although Goring briefly rejoined the King 's main ' Oxford Army ', tensions between him and Prince Rupert, the King 's Captain General and chief adviser, resulted in Goring 's force returning to the west. Parliament had meanwhile sent a substantial detachment commanded by Colonel Ralph Weldon, consisting of one cavalry regiment and four infantry regiments from their New Model Army, to relieve Taunton. They raised the siege on 11 May 1645, but were themselves besieged by Goring 's returning army ( although there was no longer any danger of the Royalists storming the town ). On 14 June 1645, the main body of the New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax, with Oliver Cromwell as Lieutenant General of Horse, won the decisive Battle of Naseby, destroying Charles 's main army. After the Royalist garrison of Leicester surrendered four days later, the New Model Army was free to march to the relief of Taunton. The army marched first south and then west, keeping near the coast so as to keep touch with Parliament 's navy. On 4 July it reached Beaminster, where Fairfax learned that Goring had raised the siege and was retreating towards the Royalist stronghold at Bridgwater. To cover the retreat of the baggage, Goring 's army was spread over a front of 12 miles ( 19 km ) along the north bank of the River Yeo, from Langport to Yeovil. The Royalists were outnumbered by Fairfax 's army, and their discipline was poor, mainly because a succession of lax Royalist commanders had allowed their men too much license to pillage ( which also alienated many of the local people ). Fairfax was joined by Weldon 's detachment from Taunton and advanced north towards Goring 's army. On 8 July, the Parliamentarians captured Yeovil at the western end of the Royalists ' line. The Royalists abandoned the line of the river, and Fairfax crossed to the north side of the River Yeo. He sent another Parliamentarian force ( part of the army of the `` Western Association '' under Major General Edward Massie ) to deal with an attempted diversion in the direction of Taunton by some of Goring 's cavalry under George Porter, a notoriously unreliable officer. Porter 's men failed to post proper sentries and outposts, and were taken by surprise by Massie and destroyed at Isle Abbots in the early hours of 9 July. Fairfax had meanwhile advanced in pursuit of Goring, and encountered Goring 's main position at Langport late on 9 July. Battle The battle of Langport took place the next day. Goring had occupied a strong rearguard position to cover the withdrawal of his slow - moving artillery and baggage. His main force held a ridge running north to south, a mile east of Langport. In front of the ridge was a marshy valley occupied by a stream named the Wagg Rhyne. Only a single narrow lane lined with trees and hedges ran across the stream via a ford, and up to the top of the ridge. Goring placed two light guns in position to fire down the lane, and disposed two raw regiments ( those of colonels Wise and Slaughter ) of Welsh foot soldiers in the hedges. Three bodies of horse ( Goring 's life guard, and Goring 's and Sir Arthur Slingsby 's regiments ) waited at the top of the ridge. Goring hoped that Fairfax would be forced to make time - consuming outflanking moves. Fairfax was prepared to rely on the superior morale of his cavalry to overcome Goring 's position. While his artillery silenced Goring 's two light guns, he sent 1500 `` commanded '' ( detached ) musketeers under Colonel Thomas Rainsborough through the marshes to clear the Welsh infantry from the hedges. He then ordered two ' divisions ' ( half regiments ) of horse to charge up the lane. These two divisions were from regiments ( Fairfax 's and Whalley 's ) which had originally been part of Cromwell 's double regiment of ironsides before being merged into the New Model Army. The first division under Major Christopher Bethel galloped up the lane four abreast, deployed into a line and charged and broke two of the Royalist cavalry regiments. A third Royalist regiment counter-attacked but the second division of Parliamentarian horse under Major John Desborough charged and routed them. As more Parliamentarian reinforcements streamed up the lane, Goring 's men broke and fled the field. Cromwell halted his well - disciplined cavalry at the top of the ridge until his forces had reformed. Then they moved rapidly in pursuit. Goring had set fire to Langport to delay the pursuers and tried to rally his army two miles further on, but his army dissolved as Cromwell 's troopers approached, abandoning their baggage and most of their weapons. Many of the fugitives were attacked by local clubmen who had banded together to resist exactions by the armies of both sides in the civil war. Results Goring 's army had been the last effective field army available to the Royalists, whatever its quality. Its loss was a major blow to Royalist morale. On 11 July, Fairfax met representatives from the local clubmen at Middlezoy. He promised that his army would pay for all supplies they took and leave the clubmen in peace provided that they did not assist the Royalists. Goring left an infantry garrison in Bridgwater and withdrew with his cavalry to Barnstaple, in Devon. He himself was depressed and possibly drinking heavily. Although Bridgwater was a strong position, Fairfax nevertheless stormed the eastern part of the town on 21 July. After a heavy artillery bombardment, Sir Hugh Wyndham surrendered the remaining western part of the town on 23 July. Fairfax next besieged Sherborne, which was defended by Sir Lewis Dyve. Dyve surrendered on 17 August after artillery and mines breached the castle walls. The New Model Army then stormed the city of Bristol on 10 September, depriving the Royalists of their major manufacturing centre. Charles had appointed Prince Rupert as governor, but he considered that Rupert had surrendered prematurely, and the two became increasingly estranged. These Parliamentarian successes isolated the remaining Royalists in the West Country from Charles 's forces in Wales, Oxford and the Midlands. The Royalists were no longer able to raise effective field forces and first civil war ended less than a year later, after the Parliamentarians captured most of the isolated Royalist garrisons. Notes ^ Jump up to : Young & Holmes ( 2000 ), p. 254 Jump up ^ Bush ( 1994 ), pp. 202 -- 206 ^ Jump up to : `` Battle of Langport ''. UK Battlefields Resource Centre. Archived from the original on 12 December 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2011. Jump up ^ Rodgers, p. 241 Jump up ^ Bush ( 1994 ), pp. 243 -- 246 ^ Jump up to : Barratt ( 2005 ), pp. 115 -- 127 Jump up ^ Barratt ( 2005 ), pp. 116 -- 118 Jump up ^ `` The Civil War in Somerset ''. Somerset County Council. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2011. ^ Jump up to : `` The Battle of Langport and Fall of Bristol ''. British Civil Wars & Commonwealth website. Retrieved 10 January 2011. Jump up ^ `` Battle of Langport ''. Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 10 July 2011. Jump up ^ Young & Holmes ( 2000 ), pp. 255 - 256 ^ Jump up to : Rodgers, p. 243 Jump up ^ `` Battle of Langport 1645 ''. Pastscape national Monuments Record. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2011. Jump up ^ `` English Heritage Battlefield Report : Langport 1645 '' ( PDF ). English Heritage. Retrieved 10 July 2011. Jump up ^ Rogers, p. 255 Jump up ^ `` The English Civil War ''. Bridgwater Somerset. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2010. Jump up ^ Spencer, Charles ( 2007 ). Prince Rupert : The Last Cavalier. London : Phoenix. p. 160. ISBN 978 - 0 - 297 - 84610 - 9. References Barratt, John ( 2005 ). The civil war in the south west. Bernsley : Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 1 - 84415 - 146 - 8. Bush, Robin ( 1994 ). Somerset : The Complete Guide. Wimbourne : Dovecote Press. ISBN 978 - 1 - 874336 - 26 - 6. Colonel H.C.B. Rogers, Battles and Generals of the Civil Wars, Seeley Service & Co. Ltd, 1968, hardback, 327 pages. Young, Peter ; Holmes, Richard ( 2000 ). The English Civil War. Ware : Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 1 - 84022 - 222 - 0. External links British Civil War site Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Langport&oldid=825164840 '' Categories : Battles of the English Civil Wars Conflicts in 1645 Military history of Somerset Registered historic battlefields in England 1645 in England 17th century in Somerset Hidden categories : Coordinates on Wikidata Use dmy dates from July 2011 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Polski ไทย Edit links This page was last edited on 11 February 2018, at 21 : 26. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 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