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Edgehill, Battle of

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Edgehill, Battle of (October 23, 1642) First encounter of Parliamentarians and Royalists in the English Civil War, near Banbury, Oxfordshire. The Royalists were outnumbered (11,000 men to the Parliamentarians' 13,000), but the result was to their advantage.

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