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	A Short History of Preston
		Preston is a busy market town situated in the north west of England, it forms a triangle with Liverpool, and Manchester, each being about 30 miles apart, Preston being the apex of the triangle to the north.
		Preston was established as a port at the head of the estuary of the River Ribble.
		Preston railway station is on the main line between Glasgow and London, and although rail travel is not as popular as it once was, the Preston station is still a major link with a total of thirteen platforms.
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	BBC - Hereford and Worcester Features - Charles' army at the battle of Worcester
		An estimated 3,000 of these troops were killed in the battle, with another 2,000 being deported to work as forced labour in the North American colonies of New England and Virginia.
		He fled to Holland after the Scots were defeated at the Battle of Preston in 1648.
		He was shot in the thigh bone during the battle, and died in the Commandery, after refusing Cromwell's offer of a surgeon.
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	1648: The Second Civil War: Battle of Preston
		From May through to August 1648, contingents of the New Model Army under Cromwell and Fairfax were tied down at the sieges of Pembroke and Colchester.
		Having secured Preston, Cromwell's troops were faced with a battle for the bridge over the Ribble and then a second bridge over the River Darwen before they could reach the main Scottish position on the hill at Walton Hall.
		Having left a strong force at Preston to guard the prisoners and to garrison the town against a possible attack by Monro, Cromwell had only 3,000 foot and 2,500 horse and dragoons against 10,000 Scots.
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	English Genealogy
		1643 Battle of Roundaway Hill and siege of Gloucester.
		1651/2 Battle of Worcester, Union with Scotland and War with Holland.
		1793 Naval victories at Cape St. Vincent, and Battle of the Nile.
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	Made in Preston - History 1780 to 1900
		The town was a small gathering above the River Ribble flood plain and acted as a focus for the area taking advantage of its position at the foot of the Pennines and above the fertile flood plain.
		Preston was a regional centre but the region was poor.Over the next 400 years the town grew with the Burgesses building more property in the centre and it gradually expanding.
		Also the civil war from 1630 to 1650 caused upheaval with a major battle being won by Cromwell in 1648 at Preston and when Royalist and Scottish armies passed through Preston on their way south.
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	Walton-le-Dale JFC
		Walton Le Dale is situated on the south banks of the River Ribble in Lancashire, directly accross the river from Preston.
		Walton Le Dale's historical claim to fame is that it was the site of one of the last battles on British soil when Oliver Cromwells army fought the Duke of Hamiltons forces in 1648 on the bridge over the Ribble.
		Preston and Walton Le dale was the scene of one of the decisive battles of the English civil war.
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	Longridge Lancashire History
		In this battle the Lancashire regiment bore the brunt of the struggle, and soon defeated the Scots with great slaughter, chasing them over Ribbleton moor and the Ribble as far as Wigan.
		A good many relics of this Battle of Preston (which began in Longridge) as it is often called have been found, amongst others, a hidden treasure, consisting of about 300 silver coins discovered in 1853 in the roof of a thatched cottage at Tenter Hill, Whittingham.
		Nearer Preston, at Fulwood and Ribbleton clear traces of the site of this battle were visible as late as the mid 1800's.
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	Essex Men at the Battle of Worcester
		Their political power extended to the control of the county militia: Honywood commanded the northernmost companies of the Essex Trained Band, while Matthew and Thomas Cooke took charge of the units based in southern and middle Essex.
		If Cromwell had envisaged a repeat of his successful Preston campaign of 1648, he was temporarily thwarted; the Scots moved south rather faster than they had three years previously.
		By the afternoon it was plain that the Royalists were losing the battle.
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	Civil war battle - The Civil War
		The first battle of the Civil War was at Edgehill near Birmingham in 1642.
		Of the ten costliest battles of the Civil War, the Battle of Stones River, Battle of Shiloh,
		The battle of Preston in the Second Civil War, 1648.
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	Military History Online - The 2nd English Civil War
		The nine tumultuous years of the English Civil War, actually three separate wars, resulted from a range of factors, economic, constitutional and religious, all inextricably interwoven.
		At a time when religious differences were more often debated with cannon balls than words, radical leaders with strong held beliefs thought nothing of deciding the issues in battle.
		An attempt by Charles to regain power was crushed by Parliamentarian forces at Preston in August 1648 and he was put on trial for treason.
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	Military Prints, Battle of Naseby
		But in 1644 after the Battle of Marston Moor a Victory for Oliver Cromwell and the parliamentarian army, (known as the New Model Army).
		Cavalier trumpeters are shown advancing with King Charles 1sts cavalry during the Battle of Naseby.
		Outpost of the New Model Army on the Eve of the Battle of Naseby by Ernest Crofts.
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	1648@Everything2.com
		Calvinist general Peter Melander, at the Battle of Zusmarhausen.
		The last battle of the war is on May 17 at Zusmarhausen, between French troops with German allies under Turenne and an Austrian-Bavarian army commanded by Melander
		The Bavarian-Austrian army retreats back across the Inn; from there they are able to hold off the French and the Swedish.
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