Defending the 'Faithful City'
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Defending the 'Faithful City'
Image: © John M Taken: 5 Mar 2016
During the Civil War artillery placed in a sconce at Fort Royal protected the city walls below from the besieging forces. The position was over-run on 3rd September 1651 during the Battle of Worcester by the Parliamentary forces' Essex militia with the Royalist Army routed. King Charles II watched the progress of the battle raging on both sides of the river from the cathedral tower eventually fleeing along a route commemorated by the Monarch's Way footpath to Shoreham and exile in France.
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