Military Encounters during the Civil Wars
Civil War Petitions contains the details of hundreds of military events in which soldiers were wounded or killed. These range from the famous clashes at Marston Moor and Naseby to those that remain unmentioned in printed Civil War histories, such as the skirmish at Snaygill near Skipton.
Use the map to browse petitions that mention military events by location. You can use the facets to filter these events by battles, sieges, assaults and other encounters.
'The endeavours of your servants': Oliver Cromwell, Military Welfare and Civil War Petitions
A Vengeful Vicar and a Martyred Mother: The Petition of James Bamlett
Aristocratic Widowhood and Bereavement: The Household Accounts of Katherine, Lady Brooke
‘And they called for their pints of beer and bottles of sherry…’: veterans and war widows as brewers and alehouse-keepers.
The War Wounds of Sir Thomas Fairfax
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The personal cost of war: injuries from firearms and their treatment during the Civil Wars
Wounds, battlefield trauma, and their survivability in the British Civil Wars
‘Manie dangerous woundes and shotts’: The physical impact of gunshot wounds in the British Civil Wars
