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SEDGEMOOR 1685: From Monmouth's Invasion to The Bloody Assizes
SEDGEMOOR 1685 From Monmouth's Invasion to The Bloody Assizes Author:David Chandler The definitive account of the last pitched battle fought on English soil, when the attempt by James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and bastard son of Charles II, to seize the throne was crushed by the Royalist army under Lord Feversham. Three hundred of his followers were sentenced to death during the infamous Judge Jeffrey's Bloody Assizes and Monmout... more »h was subsequently beheaded on Tower Hill.« less