Qualla: Battle of Powick Bridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-powick-bridge en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/2/battle-of-powick-bridge-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Powick Bridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-powick-bridge Battle of Powick Bridge: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-powick-bridge/ Photo credit Gerard van Honthorst, Public domain. It was a Friday afternoon in late September 1642, and Prince Rupert's troopers had taken off most of their armour to rest in a field called Wick Field, sometimes Brickfield Meadow, just north of the River Teme. They had ridden hard from Shrewsbury. The summer harvest still lay in stooks in the surrounding fields. None of them quite expected what came next. Around four o'clock, the sound of approaching horsemen broke the calm. A Parliamentarian detachment of about a thousand cavalry and dragoons was coming up a narrow country lane that emptied directly into the meadow. They had no idea Rupert was there. Rupert had perhaps half a minute to react.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/2/battle-of-powick-bridge-wp/gcq2-battle-of-powick-bridge-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Powick Bridge: Treasure on the Road https://qualla.com/battle-of-powick-bridge/ Photo credit Gerard van Honthorst, Public domain. Sir John Byron was a Nottinghamshire gentleman and one of King Charles I's most committed supporters. In August 1642 he raised what was probably the first Royalist cavalry regiment of the war and based himself in Oxford. When a larger Parliamentarian force pushed him out on 10 Se...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/2/battle-of-powick-bridge-wp/gcq2-battle-of-powick-bridge-treasure-on-the-road.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Powick Bridge: Two Approaching Forces https://qualla.com/battle-of-powick-bridge/ Photo credit Gerard van Honthorst, Public domain. The Parliamentarians, commanded by the Earl of Essex with his main field army at Northampton, had been watching the Royalist movements. When intelligence arrived about Byron's convoy, Colonel John Brown convinced Essex to send a detachment to intercept it. Brown took about 1,000 ...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/2/battle-of-powick-bridge-wp/gcq2-battle-of-powick-bridge-two-approaching-forces.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Powick Bridge: The Charge https://qualla.com/battle-of-powick-bridge/ Photo credit Gerard van Honthorst, Public domain. Around 4 pm Colonel Edwin Sandys led the Parliamentarian advance across Powick Bridge and up the narrow lane toward Worcester. The lane was so tight only three riders could pass abreast. The Royalist dragoons in the hedges opened fire at point-blank range. Sandys's troopers panic...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/2/battle-of-powick-bridge-wp/gcq2-battle-of-powick-bridge-the-charge.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Powick Bridge: Panic All the Way to Pershore https://qualla.com/battle-of-powick-bridge/ Photo credit Gerard van Honthorst, Public domain. Colonel Brown made a rearguard stand with his dragoons at Powick Bridge to cover the cavalry's retreat. Rupert pursued only as far as Powick village before turning back. But the Parliamentarian cavalry kept fleeing. They rode all the way back to Pershore, more than ten miles away...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/2/battle-of-powick-bridge-wp/gcq2-battle-of-powick-bridge-panic-all-the-way-to-pershore.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Powick Bridge: The Reputation That Was Made https://qualla.com/battle-of-powick-bridge/ Photo credit Gerard van Honthorst, Public domain. Powick Bridge was a small fight. About 2,000 troops total. It lasted less than an hour. But Edward Hyde, the Royalist chronicler who later became Earl of Clarendon, wrote that the victory rendered the name of Prince Rupert very terrible - and the modern historian Austin Woolrych ...

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