Qualla: Battle of Weymouth https://qualla.com/battle-of-weymouth 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/y/r/battle-of-weymouth-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Weymouth https://qualla.com/battle-of-weymouth Battle of Weymouth: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-weymouth/ Photo credit Richard Symonds, CC BY 3.0. The password was Crabchurch. White handkerchiefs tied around the upper arm. At midnight on 9 February 1645, with the Parliamentarian garrison of Weymouth half asleep and the watch worried mostly about the cleanliness of the streets, a small force of Royalist soldiers crossed the narrow strait from Portland Castle in boats. Their accomplices inside the town let them in. By dawn they held both forts that defended the harbor, and the governor's brother was dead.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/y/r/battle-of-weymouth-wp/gbyr-battle-of-weymouth-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Weymouth: A Quiet Garrison Town https://qualla.com/battle-of-weymouth/ Photo credit Richard Symonds, CC BY 3.0. Dorset's loyalties were split. The larger southern towns leaned Parliamentarian, the rural north tilted Royalist. Sir Walter Erle, a Calvinist member of Parliament, had secured Weymouth, Lyme Regis, Wareham, and Portland Castle for the Roundheads at the war's outbreak in 1642. We...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/y/r/battle-of-weymouth-wp/gbyr-battle-of-weymouth-a-quiet-garrison-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Weymouth: The Crabchurch Conspiracy https://qualla.com/battle-of-weymouth/ Photo credit Richard Symonds, CC BY 3.0. Fabian Hodder ran the plot. He was a Royalist sympathizer inside Weymouth who had been quietly recruiting other townsmen to his cause, paying five pounds a head. When the time came, he had his wife Anne write a letter to Sir Lewis Dyve at Sherborne, the local Royalist commander. ...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/y/r/battle-of-weymouth-wp/gbyr-battle-of-weymouth-the-crabchurch-conspiracy.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Weymouth: Bombardment Across a Lake https://qualla.com/battle-of-weymouth/ Photo credit Richard Symonds, CC BY 3.0. Weymouth and Melcombe were twin towns, separated by the harbor and a tidal channel, joined only by a drawbridge. Sydenham retreated to Melcombe with the surviving Parliamentarian troops and held the north bank. The two sides began bombarding each other across the water that is no...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/y/r/battle-of-weymouth-wp/gbyr-battle-of-weymouth-bombardment-across-a-lake.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Weymouth: Across the Bridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-weymouth/ Photo credit Richard Symonds, CC BY 3.0. Sydenham took his chance on 27 February. A Royalist supply convoy was making its way from Dorchester to Weymouth, and his troops captured it. When Dyve pulled men out of the town to recover the convoy, Sydenham sent a hundred and fifty musketeers across the drawbridge in a rush. ...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/y/r/battle-of-weymouth-wp/gbyr-battle-of-weymouth-across-the-bridge.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Weymouth: What the Town Keeps https://qualla.com/battle-of-weymouth/ Photo credit Richard Symonds, CC BY 3.0. Nothe Fort is still there, rebuilt and expanded in the Victorian era and now a museum. The drawbridge across the harbor has been replaced several times and is now a swing bridge. Radipole Lake, formed when the old harbor was partially dammed, has become a wetland nature reserve a...

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