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A copy of Lieutenant General Crumwels Letter, read in the House of Commons. : And other letters of a great and bloody fight neere Preston. The Scots army totally defeated by Lieutenant Generall Crumwell. VVith the paritculars of the fight, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last. 2500 Scots slain, 2000 taken prisoners, 300 officers kild and taken. 400 horse taken. 4000 fire armes. 2000 other armes. 30 coulors. 8 barrels of gunpowder. 4 cart load of ammunition 500 cattle retaken & restored 5000 l. worth of goods retake [sic] divers papers concerning Prince Charles, and divers in London. Duke Hambleton fled to Wygan & Langdale to Carlisle. 1500 Scots, & English cavaliers, kild, taken, dispersed, fled August 21. 1648. These being true copies, are thought fit to bee printed and published for the satisfaction of the whole kingdome, one of them signed Oliver Crumwell.

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Main Author:	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[London] : Printed by Robert Ibbitson, in Smithfield, neer the Queenes-head Tavern, 1648.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Scotland. > Army > History > Early works to 1800. Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Early works to 1800. Great Britain > Militia > Early works to 1800.
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