Qualla: Battle of Inverkeithing https://qualla.com/battle-of-inverkeithing en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/battle-of-inverkeithing-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Inverkeithing https://qualla.com/battle-of-inverkeithing Battle of Inverkeithing: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-inverkeithing/ Photo credit After Samuel Cooper, Public domain. Major-general John Lambert found two spent bullets lodged in his coat after the fighting at Inverkeithing. They had not penetrated. The cavalry duel had lasted barely thirty minutes, on the rising ground of Castland Hill just inland from the Ferry Peninsula. When it ended, three Scottish cavalry regiments were broken, the brigade commander John Browne of Fordell was dying of his wounds, and Cromwell's New Model Army held the deep-water port of Burntisland in Fife. Within a fortnight Cromwell had crossed the Firth of Forth with thirteen thousand men, bypassed Stirling, and was marching on Perth. Within six weeks Charles II was a fugitive in England and the Scottish Covenanter government was finished. It all began on the morning of 20 July 1651, on an isthmus half a mile wide.

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