The Battle of Chalgrove was a skirmish of the English Civil War in the county of Oxfordshire. It took place around 09:00 hours on the morning of 18 June 1643. It was a minor Royalist victory and is notable for the mortal wounding of Parliamentarian Colonel John Hampden who died six days later of his wounds. See also the town of Battle, East Sussex, England Generally, a battle is an instance of combat between two or more parties wherein each group will seek to defeat the others. ... The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in south-east England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... Headline text Cavalier has multiple meanings: Cavalier is a male ballet dancer. ... The Roundheads was the nickname given to supporters of the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War. ... John Hampden as depicted in the 1851 Illustrated London Reading Book John Hampden (circa 1595—1643) was an English politician, the eldest son of William Hampden, of Hampden House, Great Hampden in Buckinghamshire, a descendant of a very ancient family of that county, said to have been established there before...

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References

• Battle of Chalgrove part of the The Battlefields Trust Resource Centre of the The Battlefields Trust

Further reading

• Chalgrove Field, Buckinghamshire, 18 June 1643 on the British Civil Wars & Commonwealth website
• Chalgrove 1643 website of English Civil War