50°36′27″N 2°27′19″W / 50.6075°N 2.4553°W
First Battle of Weymouth (The Crabchurch Conspiracy) | |||||||||
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Part of The First English Civil War | |||||||||
RAFA Club with an embedded cannonball | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Royalists | Parliamentarians | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Lewis Dyve William Hastings | William Sydenham | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
1,500 | 1,200 |
Second Battle of Weymouth | |||||||||
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Part of the First English Civil War | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Royalists | Parliamentarians | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Lewis Dyve James Heane Lord Goring | William Sydenham | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
6,500 | 1,200 |
The Battle of Weymouth and the associated Crabchurch Conspiracy occurred in 1645, during the First English Civil War, when several royalist plotters within the twin towns of Weymouth and Melcombe on the Dorset coast conspired to deliver the ports back into the control of King Charles I.