Battle of Sedgemoor - Battle of Sedgemoor History -- Military history -- List of battles The Battle of Sedgemoor was fought on July 6 1685. and took place near Bridgwater in Somerset between the troops of the rebel James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and James II of England in an attempt to seize the English throne. James II was the first in line of succession to the throne following the end of the English Civil War. James, Duke of Monmouth was the illegitimate son on of Charles II. It is often referred to as the last battle fought on English (as opposed to British) soil, but this is incorrect - the Battle of Preston (in Lancashire) was fought on November 14 1715, during the Jacobite Rebellion. After landing from the.
Sedgemoor - Sedgemoor Sedgemoor is an administrative district of Somerset in England. A low lying area of land close to sea level between the Quantock and Mendip hills, historically largely marsh (or moor) and contains the bulk of the area also known as the Somerset Levels. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Notable towns 2 Villages 3 Rivers 4 Battles 5 Industries 6 External Links Notable towns Bridgwater - the administrative center Burnham on Sea North Petherton Villages Puriton Westonzoyland Rivers River Parrett River Brue River Huntspill King's Sedgemoor Drain Battles Battle of Sedgemoor Industries Light industry now predominates, but traditional trades include peat extraction, willow crafts and cider making can still be found, in addition to livestock farming. The River Parrett provides a source of eels (anguilla anguilla).
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth - In the campaign of 1673 and in particular at the siege of Maastricht, Monmouth gained a considerable reputation as one of England's finest soldiers. In 1678 Monmouth was commander of the Anglo-Dutch brigade, now fighting for the United Provinces against the French. He distinguished himself at the battle of St Denis, further increasing his reputation. The following year, after his return to England, he commanded the small army raised to put down the rebellion of the Scottish Covenanters. Despite being heavily outnumbered, he decisively defeated the rebels at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge on June 22 1679. By this time it was becoming apparent that Charles II would have no legitimate heir, and Monmouth was regarded by many as preferable to the Duke of York. Following the discovery of the so-called.
Districts of England - Worthing South West England (Avon) - abolished Bath and North East Somerset Bristol North Somerset South Gloucestershire Cornwall Caradon Cerrick Kerrier North Cornwall Penwith Restormel Isles of Scilly Devon East Devon Exeter Mid Devon North Devon (Plymouth) South Hams Teignbridge (Torbay) Torridge West Devon Dorset Bournemouth Christchurch East Dorset North Dorset Poole Purbeck West Dorset Weymouth and Portland Gloucestershire Cheltenham Cotswold Forest of Dean Gloucester Stroud Tewkesbury Somerset Mendip Sedgemoor South Somerset Taunton Deane West Somerset Wiltshire Kennet North Wiltshire Salisbury (Swindon) West Wiltshire West Midlands Herefordshire Shropshire Bridgnorth North Shropshire Oswestry Shrewsbury and Atcham South Shropshire (Telford and Wrekin) Staffordshire Cannock Chase East Staffs Lichfield Newcastle-under-Lyme South Staffordshire Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands (Stoke-on-Trent) Tamworth Warwickshire North Warwickshire Nuneaton and Bedworth Rugby Stratford-on-Avon Warwick (West Midlands) - no county council Birmingham Coventry.
1685 - of England, Scotland and Ireland declares himself King and heir to his father's Kingdoms as James II of England and Ireland and James VII of Scotland, after already forming his own armie and campaigning against his uncle. July 6 - Battle of Sedgemoor between the armies of King James II of England and rebel forces under Monmouth. The last battle on English soil. Monmouth's army is defeated and the Duke himself is captured shortly after the battle. July 15 - In England, the Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, after he was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemore. October - Louis XIV declares the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal. Births February 23 - George Friderich Handel, composer March 21 - Johann.
Taunton, Somerset - 1627, which was renewed in 1677. The corporation existed until 1792, when the charter lapsed owing to vacancies in the number of the corporate body, and Taunton was not reincorporated until 1877. The medieval fairs and markets of Taunton were celebrated for the sale of woollen cloth called "Tauntons" made in the town. On the decline of the west of England woollen industry, silk-weaving was introduced at the end of the 18th century. From the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica In the autumn of 1685 Judge Jeffreys was based in Taunton during the Bloody Assizes that followed the Battle of Sedgemoor. Lady Hariet Acland died at Tetton, near Taunton, July 21, 1815. In World War II the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal formed part of the Taunton Stop Line, designed to prevent the advance.
Athelney - Athelney Athelney in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England. A small village near North Petherton, once isolated in the marshes of the Somerset Levels, best known for once being the hiding place of King Alfred the Great, from where he went on to defeat the Danes at the Battle of Eddington. Alfred later founded a monastery at Athelney that lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, under King Henry VIII of England. Also see Museum.
Bloody Assizes - Assizes were the series of trials in the aftermouth of the Battle of Sedgemoor following the Monmouth Rebellion in England. James II of England sent the infamous Judge Jeffreys to round up and try the defeated supporters of the rebel Duke of Monmouth. About 1300 people were found guilty, many being transported abroard, while some suffered drawing and quartering. The ruthlessness of the event resulted in the name of the "Bloody Assizes". They are still remembered in the South West of England..
Bridgwater - a town in Somerset, England. Bridgwater is the administrative centre of the Sedgemoor district of Somerset in South West England, between two junctions of the M5 motorway. It is thought that the town was originally called Brigg, meaning Quay. After the Norman invasion the land was given to Walter Douai, a Norman prince, hence become BriggWalter, eventually corrupted to Bridgwater. An alternative version is that it derives from "Bridge of Walter" (i.e. Walter's Bridge). The town had a population of 36,000 in 1998 (up from 22,718 in 1951 and 3,634 in 1801). Historically, the town had a politically radical tendency, being involved in several events of note on the national stage. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Industry 3 Arts 4 Annual Events 5 People 5.1 Members of Parliament 5.1.1.
British military history - 1660) Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665 - 1667) War of Devolution (1667 - 1668) Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672 - 1674) King Philip's War (1675 - 1676) Monmouth Rebellion (1685) Battle of Sedgemoor (1685) - last battle on English soil War of the Grand Alliance (or King William's War) (1688 - 1697) Jacobite Rebellions (1689 - 1746) Battle of Culloden (1746) - last battle on the British mainland War of the Spanish Succession (1702 - 1713) Queen Anne's War (1702 - 1713) War of Jenkins' Ear (1739 - 1742) War of the Austrian Succession (1740 - 1748) Seven Years War (1756-1763) Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784) American War of Independence (1775 to 1783) Napoleonic Wars (1803 - 1815) Battle of Trafalgar (1805) British-American War (1812) First Anglo-Afghan War First Opium War (1839 - 1842).
Site of Special Scientific Interest - legal framework for SSSIs was provided by the Wildlife and Countryside Acts of 1981 and 1985, and the protection of SSSIs was enhanced by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act of 2000. List of SSSIs SSSIs in England SSSIs in the Somerset Levels: Brean Down Bridgwater Bay Catcott, Edington and Chilton Moors Cheddar Reservoir Curry and Hay Moors King's Sedgemoor Langmead and Weston Level Moorlinch North Moor Shapwick Heath Southlake Moor Street Heath Tealham and Tadham Moor West Moor West Sedgemoor Westhay Heath Westhay Moor Wet Moor SSSIs in Norfolk: Cley next the Sea Halvergate Marshes Upper Thurne Broads and Marshes SSSIs in Sheffield: Ladies Spring Wood Loxley and Wadsey Middlewood Hospital Rivelin Valley SSSIs in Scotland SSSIs in Wales SSSIs in Northern Ireland.
Somerset - that is still in use, in the small town of Shepton Mallet. Tourist attractions include its coastal towns, part of the Exmoor National Park, the West Somerset Railway (a heritage railway), and the museum of the Fleet Air Arm at RNAS Yeovilton. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Towns and villages 2 Districts of Somerset 3 Places of Interest 4 External Links Towns and villages Alcombe, Alford, Axbridge Bath. Bridgwater, Bristol, Broomfield, Burnham-on-Sea Chard, Chinnock, Compton Dundon, Crewkerne Dean, Drayton, Dunster Easton Fulford Glastonbury Henley, Horton, Hurst Ilchester, Ilminster Laverton Maperton, Marston Magna, Maundown, Meare, Mells, Merriott, Minehead Nether Stowey Porlock Shepton Mallet, Somerton, Street Taunton Watchet, Wellington, Wells, Weston-super-Mare, Westonzoyland Yeovil Districts of Somerset Mendip Sedgemoor Places of Interest Bath Cathedral Bristol Channel Cadbury Castle Clifton Suspension Bridge - Isambard Kingdom.
Somerset Levels - a submerged and reclaimed landscape. The area was prone to regular flooding, particularly before the sea defences were enhanced at Bridgwater in the early 20th century. The area broadly corresponds to the administrative district of Sedgemoor but also includes south east Mendip. Much of the area is at, or only slightly above, sea level, so until it was drained in the 17th century it was a marsh that was frequently flooded by the sea. The area was settled by the Bronze Age, with the population living on artificial islands connected by wooden causeways on wooden piles, supporting themselves largely by hunting and fishing in the surrounding marsh. Several towns were also built on the natural 'islands' of slightly raised land, including Brent Knoll, Glastonbury, and the low range of the Polden.
River Huntspill - (or Huntspill River) is an aritificial river in the Somerset Levels in the Sedgemoor district of the United Kingdom. The river was dug during the Second World War to serve ROF Puriton, the Royal Ordnance Factory near Puriton. It drains into Bridgwater Bay, an important National Nature Reserve, on the edge of the Estuary of the River Severn..
Robert Ferguson - Exclusion Bill, and claimed to be the author of the whole of the pamphlet "No Protestant Plot" (1681), parts of which are usually ascribed to Shaftesbury. Ferguson was deeply implicated in the Rye House Plot, although he asserted that he had frustrated both this and a subsequent attempt to assassinate the king, and he fled to the Netherlands with Shaftesbury in 1682, returning to England early in 1683. For his share in another plot against Charles II he was declared an outlaw, after which he entered into communication with Argyll, Monmouth and other malcontents. Ferguson then took a leading part in organizing the rising of 1685. Having overcome Monmouth's reluctance to take part in this movement, he accompanied the duke to the west of England and drew up the manifesto against.
ROF Puriton - producing high explosive munitions near Puriton in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, UK. The factory was commenced in 1939 and opened in 1941, served by the River Huntspill, to supply munitions for World War II. It's cuurrently owned by BAE Systems after the Royal Ordnance factories were privatised..
Quantock Hills - England. The hills are officially designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The hills form the sothern border of Sedgemoor and the Somerset Levels. In 2000 the film Pandaemonium, based on the lives of poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was set in the hills..
Puriton - is a village at the westerly end of the Polden hills in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, UK. See also ROF Puriton..
Monmouth Rebellion - heir to the throne and attempted to displace Charles's unpopular successor, the Roman Catholic James II. Monmouth's forces were defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor. The king was overthrown in a coup d'état three years later, in the Glorious Revolution. Also see Judge Jeffreys Bloody Assizes British military history UK topics.
List of battles (alphabetical) - of Lowicz - 1914 - World War I Battle of Lugou Bridge (a.k.a. Incident at Marco Polo Bridge) - 1937 - Second Chinese-Japanese War Battle of Lumphanan - 1057 - Scottish dispute over the throne; Macbeth died here. Battle of Lundy's Lane - 1814 - War of 1812 Battle of Lutter am Barenberge - 1626 - Thirty Years' War Battle of Lützen (1632) - Thirty Years' War Battle of Lützen (1813) - Napoleonic Empire Wars M Battle of Magdeburg - 1631 - Thirty Years' War Battle of Magdhaba - 1915 - World War I Battle of Magenta - 1859 - Italian Independence War Battle of Magh Tuiredh (three battles) - Irish mythology - see also Tuatha de Danaan, Lugh Battle of Malakoff - 1855 - Crimean War Battle of Maldon -.
