Qualla: Battle of St Fagans https://qualla.com/battle-of-st-fagans en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/s/battle-of-st-fagans-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of St Fagans https://qualla.com/battle-of-st-fagans Battle of St Fagans: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-st-fagans/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. The Welsh soldiers who attacked Parliament's army at St Fagans on the morning of 8 May 1648 had spent the previous war fighting on Parliament's side. They had not switched ideologies. They had switched because Parliament had not paid them in months, and now wanted to disband them without their wages, and was demanding they hand their fortresses over to strangers from the New Model Army. Hungry, angry, owed money, they declared for the King they had spent six years fighting against. By dawn that May morning they outnumbered the Parliamentarians more than two to one. By mid-morning over 200 of them were dead and 3,000 were prisoners, and Welsh resistance in the Second English Civil War was effectively over.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/s/battle-of-st-fagans-wp/gcjs-battle-of-st-fagans-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of St Fagans: A Quarrel About Pay https://qualla.com/battle-of-st-fagans/ Photo credit Samuel Harding, Public domain. The First English Civil War ended in 1646 with the King defeated. Two years later, in 1648, the country was at war with itself again. The Second English Civil War was not a war of ideas so much as a war of grievances - of unpaid soldiers, of resentful provinces, of factions who h...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/s/battle-of-st-fagans-wp/gcjs-battle-of-st-fagans-a-quarrel-about-pay.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of St Fagans: Horton's Three Thousand https://qualla.com/battle-of-st-fagans/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. Colonel Thomas Horton commanded the 3,000-strong detachment Parliament had sent to replace Laugharne and secure Wales. He was a veteran New Model officer doing what veteran officers do: marching to Carmarthen, putting down a separate uprising in Brecon along the way, then occupyi...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/s/battle-of-st-fagans-wp/gcjs-battle-of-st-fagans-hortons-three-thousand.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of St Fagans: Dawn at the Nant Dowlais https://qualla.com/battle-of-st-fagans/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. Early on 8 May, Parliamentarian scouts made contact with the Royalist army about three kilometres outside St Fagans. Horton deployed quickly, taking the centre with most of his infantry, splitting his cavalry and dragoons between the wings - John Okey commanding the left, Nathani...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/s/battle-of-st-fagans-wp/gcjs-battle-of-st-fagans-dawn-at-the-nant-dowlais.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of St Fagans: The Rout https://qualla.com/battle-of-st-fagans/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. The fight became general in the fields northwest of the village. High hedges hampered Horton's horsemen in the centre, but on the wings the Parliamentarian dragoons under Okey forced both Royalist wings back. Then a Parliamentarian cavalry detachment under Major Bethel circled an...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/s/battle-of-st-fagans-wp/gcjs-battle-of-st-fagans-the-rout.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of St Fagans: Cromwell's Hard Spring https://qualla.com/battle-of-st-fagans/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. Cromwell reached Gloucester on the day of the battle and crossed into Wales shortly after. He left Colonel Isaac Ewer to invest Chepstow Castle, joined Horton at Tenby on 15 May, then marched on Pembroke and besieged it. The Welsh fortresses fell one by one. When they did, Cromwe...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/j/s/battle-of-st-fagans-wp/gcjs-battle-of-st-fagans-cromwells-hard-spring.mp3 0:06 6 full Battle of St Fagans: The Quiet Village Now https://qualla.com/battle-of-st-fagans/ Photo credit Mx. Granger, CC0. Today St Fagans is best known not for the battle but for St Fagans National Museum of History - the open-air museum of Welsh life that draws a million visitors a year. The battlefield sits in a stretch of farmland just outside the village, mostly hedged fields and woods, with no ...

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