File:Battle of Winceby - geograph.org.uk - 1770090.jpg
Battle_of_Winceby_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1770090.jpg (640 × 480 pixels, file size: 66 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary edit
DescriptionBattle of Winceby - geograph.org.uk - 1770090.jpg |
English: Battle of Winceby The 11th of October 2003 and this was the 360th anniversary of the Battle of Winceby. The historical re-enactors have ridden up from Old Bolingbroke to Winceby to re-enact the battle.
The UK Battlefields Resource Centre, created by the Battlefields Trust, has, "The Battle of Winceby is one of the lesser battles of the civil war, with no more than 6000 troops engaged." It goes on to say, "Its significance far outweighs its scale. For parliaments Eastern Association army from East Anglia this was their first major campaign. It was also the first nationally important victory for Cromwells cavalry and the first action in which he fought side by side with Sir Thomas Fairfax, with whom in the New Model Army he would finally destroy the royalist cause in 1645-6. In this battle, which lasted no more than half an hour, followed by many hours of pursuit, the parliamentarians destroyed a combined force of royalist cavalry and dragoons from Lincolnshire and Newark. The victory was so swift and complete that the Association infantry did not even have time to engage the enemy. The outcome was the fall of much of the county of Lincolnshire to parliament and a halting of the royalist ascendancy in the region. The battle was fought on the high ground, where the route from royalist garrison at Lincoln via Horncastle to the besieged royalist garrison at Bolingbroke crosses the Lincolnshire Wolds. Although the general location of the battlefield is certain the exact place where the action was fought within Winceby parish is still open to dispute." In Sir Thomas Fairfax words, "Presently the Bodies met in the plain where the Fight was hot for half an hour, but then we forced them to a rout. Above 200 killed, and 200 taken prisoners". |
Date | |
Source | From geograph.org.uk |
Author | Dave Hitchborne |
Attribution (required by the license) InfoField | Dave Hitchborne / Battle of Winceby / |
InfoField | Dave Hitchborne / Battle of Winceby |
Camera location | 53° 11′ 39.2″ N, 0° 01′ 21″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 53.194230; -0.022500 |
---|
Object location | 53° 11′ 39.2″ N, 0° 01′ 21″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 53.194230; -0.022500 |
---|
Licensing edit
This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Dave Hitchborne and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
|
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 22:31, 11 March 2011 | 640 × 480 (66 KB) | GeographBot (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Battle of Winceby The 11th of October 2003 and this was the 360th anniversary of the Battle of Winceby. The historical re-enactors have ridden up from Old Bolingbroke to Winceby to re-enact the batt |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
_error | 0 |
---|