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Sir John Berkeley’s Regiment of Horse
Active | 1642 to 1646 |
Country | England |
Allegiance | Royalist |
Conflicts | First Civil War |
Type | Horse |
Colonel | Sir John Berkeley |
Area Raised | West Country |
Flag Colour | |
Flag Design | See below |
Field Armies | Hopton 1643 |
Royalist regiment of horse serving throughout the First Civil War in the West Country
Service History
1643
- January: Battle of Braddock Down?
- January: Skirmish at Kingsbridge
- February: Skirmish at Chagford and Okehampton
- February: Battle of Modbury
- April: Battle of Beacon Hill
- April: Battle of Sourton Down
- May: Battle of Stratton?
- June: Taking of Taunton
- June to September: Siege of Exeter
- July: Battle of Lansdown??
- July: Skirmish at Topsham
1644
- March: Storm of Hemioch Castle?
- April to June: Siege of Lyme Regis?
- August: Battle of Lostwithiel
- September: Skirmish on Hatherleigh Moor?
- September to January 1646: Siege of Plymouth
1645
- April to May: Siege of Taunton
- July: Battle of Langport (det)
- October to April 1646: Besieged at Exeter
1646
- May to June: Besieged at Oxford
Notes
Flags & Equipment
According to Blount: Sir John Berkley depainted in his Devise, a Parergon or Landskip of a pleasant Country enrich'd with fair Houses, Cornfields &c. And the Motto interrogatorily BARBARUS HAS SEGETES? accounting (as it should seem) the Parliament forces no better then Barbarians. =====Notable Officers===== ====Sir John Berkeley==== Sir John Berkeley =====Strength===== =====See Also====== ===== Links =====