Qualla: Battle of Lostwithiel https://qualla.com/battle-of-lostwithiel en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/w/battle-of-lostwithiel-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Lostwithiel https://qualla.com/battle-of-lostwithiel Battle of Lostwithiel: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lostwithiel/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. In August 1644, King Charles I had a Parliamentarian army backed into a peninsula. Six thousand five hundred infantry and three thousand cavalry under Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, had marched into Cornwall expecting the local population to rise in their support. They had not. The Cornish were Royalists, and the king's spies were everywhere. Over thirteen days, the Royalists closed a noose along the River Fowey valley until Essex was trapped between Lostwithiel in the north and the port of Fowey in the south, in an area five miles long and two miles wide. What followed was the worst defeat Parliament would suffer in the First English Civil War.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/w/battle-of-lostwithiel-wp/gbuw-battle-of-lostwithiel-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Lostwithiel: Trap Set, Trap Sprung https://qualla.com/battle-of-lostwithiel/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. Essex had moved into Cornwall in late July with two intentions: to relieve the Parliamentarian garrison at Plymouth and to take control of the south-west from the king. He was wrong about Cornwall. Lord Robartes, the wealthy Cornish merchant and politician who had assured him the...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/w/battle-of-lostwithiel-wp/gbuw-battle-of-lostwithiel-trap-set-trap-sprung.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Lostwithiel: The King's Slow Squeeze https://qualla.com/battle-of-lostwithiel/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. Charles closed in deliberately. Aided by Cornish intelligence at every step, the Royalists cut off escape route after escape route. On 6 August the king sent a letter to Essex calling for his surrender. Essex stalled for several days and finally refused. On 11 August, Sir Richard...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/w/battle-of-lostwithiel-wp/gbuw-battle-of-lostwithiel-the-kings-slow-squeeze.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Lostwithiel: First Battle - 21 August https://qualla.com/battle-of-lostwithiel/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. At seven in the morning on 21 August 1644, Charles attacked. Grenville and the Cornish Royalists struck Restormel Castle from the north and dislodged the Parliamentarians, who fell back quickly. From the east, Charles and the Oxford army took Beacon Hill with little resistance. P...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/w/battle-of-lostwithiel-wp/gbuw-battle-of-lostwithiel-first-battle-21-august.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Lostwithiel: Second Battle - 31 August to 2 September https://qualla.com/battle-of-lostwithiel/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Parliamentarian infantry started their withdrawal south at first light on 31 August, looting Lostwithiel as they went. The Royalists saw the movement at seven and attacked. Grenville came in from the north, Charles and Maurice crossed the Fowey from the east, and together the...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/w/battle-of-lostwithiel-wp/gbuw-battle-of-lostwithiel-second-battle-31-august-to-2-september.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Lostwithiel: The March to Southampton https://qualla.com/battle-of-lostwithiel/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. On the morning of 1 September, Skippon met with his officers. They voted to seek terms. Charles agreed quickly, anxious that Parliamentarian reinforcements might still arrive, and on 2 September the surrender was signed. About 6,000 Parliamentarian infantry became prisoners. The ...

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