Battle of Hopton Heath

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Battle of Hopton Heath
Part of the First English Civil War
The Battle of Hopton Heath By J. T. Willmore after George Cattermole
Date 19 March 1643 Location Hopton Heath, Staffordshire Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
Royalists	Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Earl of Northampton † Henry Hastings Sir Thomas Byron	Sir John Gell Sir Willam Brereton
Strength
1,200[1]	1,400[1]

Hopton Heath

Lichfield

Stafford

Tamworth

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Staffordshire and Hopton Heath

The battle of Hopton Heath was a part of the First English Civil War, fought on Sunday 19 March 1643 between Parliamentarian forces led by Sir John Gell and Sir William Brereton and a Royalist force under Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton.^[2]