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Sedgemoor 1685: From Monmouth's Invasion to the Bloody Assizes (Spellmount Classics)
Sedgemoor 1685 From Monmouth's Invasion to the Bloody Assizes - Spellmount Classics Author:David Chandler In June 1685 the Duke of Monmouth, bastard son of Charles II, landed an army of eight thousand men at Lyme Regis, Dorset, in an attempt to seize the throne. He was met and defeated at Sedgemoor by the Royalist army under Lord Feversham.