Battle of Stratton

Battle of Stratton
Part of the First English Civil War
Site of the Battle of Stratton, in Cornwall
Date 16 May 1643 Location Stratton, Cornwall 50°50′10″N 4°31′08″W / 50.836°N 4.519°W / 50.836; -4.519 Result Royalist victory
Belligerents
Royalists	Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Sir Ralph Hopton Sir Bevil Grenville Sir Nicholas Slanning	Earl of Stamford James Chudleigh
Strength
2,400 foot[1] 500 horse 8 guns	5,400 foot[2] 200 horse 13 guns
Casualties and losses
90 dead[1]	300 dead[3] 1,700 captured

Exeter

Wells

Barnstaple

Sherborne

Launceston

Roundway Down

Bodmin

Stratton

Plymouth

Langport

Truro

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Western England, 1643

The Battle of Stratton, also known as the Battle of Stamford Hill,^[4] took place on 16 May 1643, at Stratton in Cornwall, during the First English Civil War. In the battle the Royalists destroyed Parliament's field army in Devon and Cornwall.