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Prince Rupert’s Regiment of Horse
| Active | 1642-1646 |
| Country | England |
| Allegiance | Royalist |
| Conflicts | First Civil War |
| Type | Horse |
| Colonel | Prince Rupert |
| Sir Thomas Dallison | |
| Area Raised | |
| Flag Colour | Unknown |
| Flag Design | Unknown |
| Field Armies | Oxford 1642-3 |
| Rupert 1644 | |
| Oxford 1645 | |
The most famous regiment of Royalist horse, led by Prince Rupert, nephew of King Charles I
Service History
1642
- August: Attack Caldecote Hall but retire after Mrs Purefoy's steadfast defence
- September: Battle of Powick Bridge
- October: Skirmish at King’s Norton?
- October: Skirmish at Wormleighton
- October: Battle of Edgehill
- November: Battle of Aylesbury
- November: Standoff at Windsor
- November: Skirmish at Kingston upon Thames
- November: Battle of Brentford
- November: Standoff at Turnham Green
- December: Storm of Marlborough
- December: Quartered at Abingdon
1643
- January: Standoff at Cirencester
- February: Storm of Cirencester
- March: Standoff at Bristol
- March: Stormed at Malmesbury (det)
- March: Skirmish at Aylesbury
- March: Taking of Malmesbury
- April: Storm of Birmingham
- April: Siege of Lichfield
- June: Skirmish at Islip
- June: Skirmish at Chinnor
- June: Battle of Chalgrove Field
- July: Skirmish at Padbury
- July: Storm of Bristol
- August to September: Siege of Gloucester
- September: Skirmish at Stow on the Wold
- September: Battle of Aldbourne Chase
- September: First Battle of Newbury
- September: Skirmish at Aldermaston & Padworth
- October: Taking of Newport Pagnell?
- October: Repulsed from Northampton
- October: Taking of Bedford
- November: Skirmish at Towcester?
1644
- January: Standoff at Aylesbury
- March: Skirmish at Market Drayton
- March: Battle of Newark
- May: Skirmish at Knutsford?
- May: Storm of Stockport
- May: Storm of Bolton
- June: Siege of Liverpool
- June: Taking of Clitheroe?
- July: Battle of Marston Moor
- August: Skirmish at Welshpool
- September: Skirmish at Newtown (det)
- November: Relief of Donnington
1645
- January: Repulsed from Abingdon
- April: Skirmish at Ledbury
- April: Relief of Beeston Castle
- April: Storm of Ledbury
- May: Siege of Hawkesley House
- May: Storm of Leicester
- June: Battle of Naseby
- August to September: Besieged in Bristol
1646
- May to June: Besieged in Oxford
- June: Disbanded at surrender of Oxford
Notes
Flags
Notable Officers
Prince Rupert
Sir Thomas Dallison
Sir Thomas Dallison was colonel of Rupert's horse, and was killed in battle at Naseby in 1645.
Strength
- October 1642: 7 troops at Edgehill
- May 1645: 400 men in 8 troops at Leicester1)
See Also
Links
Prince Rupert's Regiment of Horse are re-enacted by Prince Rupert's Cavalry of the Sealed Knot.
1)
British Library Harleian Ms 911
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