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  • Battle of Seacroft Moor
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  • As Sir Thomas Fairfax was instructed to capture Tadcaster, he fell back into the West Riding after failing to destroy the bridge over the Wharfe at Tadcaster. He was intercepted and pursued by Royalist horse under Lord George Goring, the Lieutenant-General of Horse to Sir William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, over the moors of Whinmoor and Bramham.
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Strength
  • Around 20 troops of horse
  • Some musketeers, around 3 troops of horse, but mainly local Clubmen
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Partof
  • the First English Civil War
Date
  • 1643-03-30
Commander
Casualties
  • 1000
  • Unknown
Result
  • Decisive Royalist victory
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Place
  • Between the Cock Beck Valley & Seacroft, West Yorkshire
Conflict
  • Battle of Seacroft Moor
abstract
  • As Sir Thomas Fairfax was instructed to capture Tadcaster, he fell back into the West Riding after failing to destroy the bridge over the Wharfe at Tadcaster. He was intercepted and pursued by Royalist horse under Lord George Goring, the Lieutenant-General of Horse to Sir William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, over the moors of Whinmoor and Bramham.
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