The Second Battle of Newbury, 1644
In 1644 the Royalist Army of King Charles I of England took up a defensive position in the triangle where the River Lambourn meets the River Kennet, with fortifications at Shaw House and Speen. Here he was attacked by the Parliamentarian Armies in the Second battle of Newbury on 27 October 1644.
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