Battle of Gainsborough

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Battle of Gainsborough
Part of the First English Civil War
Date 28 July 1643 Location Gainsborough, Lincolnshire Result Parliamentarian victory
Belligerents
Royalists	Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Charles Cavendish †	Sir John Meldrum Colonel Oliver Cromwell
Strength
Unknown	1,200[1]

Gainsborough

Newark

Nottingham

Hull

Lincoln

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Lincolnshire County

The Battle of Gainsborough took place during the First English Civil War on 28 July 1643. The strategically important town of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, was a Royalist base used for harassing the Parliamentarians who were generally dominant in Lincolnshire, but was taken by Parliamentarians in July 1643. An attempt to recapture Gainsborough by Charles Cavendish and the Royalists was foiled in a battle in which Colonel Oliver Cromwell distinguished himself as a cavalry leader.^[2]