Battle of St Neots (1648)

Battle of St Neots
Part of the Second English Civil War
Colonel Adrian Scrope, Parliamentarian commander
Date 10 July 1648 Location St Neots Cambridgeshire Result Parliamentarian victory
Belligerents
Royalists	Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Earl of Holland  (POW) Colonel John Dalbier  †	Colonel Adrian Scrope
Strength
100 to 200 (estimate)	100
Casualties and losses
12 killed or wounded	minimal

The Battle of St Neots on 10 July 1648 was a skirmish during the Second English Civil War at St Neots in Cambridgeshire. A Royalist force led by the Earl of Holland and Colonel John Dalbier was defeated by 100 veteran troops from the New Model Army, commanded by Colonel Adrian Scrope.

Taken by surprise in the early hours, the Royalists were quickly overpowered; Dalbier and several others were killed, while Holland was taken prisoner and executed for treason on 9 March 1649. Although a relatively minor action, Parliamentarian troops were struggling to deal with a series of local risings and victory ensured there was no central focus for Royalist groups in the East Midlands.