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Battle of Preston | |||||||
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Part of the Jacobite rising of 1715 | |||||||
A map of 18th-century Preston | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Great Britain | Jacobites | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Charles Wills George Carpenter |
William Mackintosh William Maxwell Lord Derwentwater Thomas Forster Henry Oxburgh | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
2,500–3,000 | 1,700 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
300 killed or wounded |
17 dead 25 wounded 1,468 captured | ||||||
The Battle of Preston (9–14 November 1715) was the final action of the Jacobite rising of 1715, an attempt to put James Francis Edward Stuart on the British throne in place of George I. After two days of street-fighting, the Jacobite commander Thomas Forster surrendered to government troops under General Charles Wills. It was arguably the last battle fought on English soil.