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The Battle of Worcester

Worcester

The last battle of the Civil Wars, and a king who hid in an oak tree.

In 1651 Charles II, son of the executed Charles I, marched south with a Scottish army, but Cromwell crushed it at Worcester. Charles escaped and spent six weeks on the run, once hiding in an oak tree at Boscobel while soldiers searched below.

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When
3 September 1651
Where
52.1800, -2.2100
Group
Battlefields

Visiting

The Commandery in Worcester was the royalist headquarters and is now a museum.

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