"Alcohol related mystery!" Topic
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| Fishbuckle | 06 Jul 2014 10:25 a.m. PST |
Just a little something the educated readers of TMP might be able to help me with! link Thanks!
Chris |
| Mollinary | 06 Jul 2014 11:41 a.m. PST |
All I could find is that Charles 1st and his army passed through in Early September 1645, on his way to try and relieve the siege of Hereford by the Scots.He stayed the night on 3rd September. Couldn't find anything about a battle. Mollinary |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 06 Jul 2014 12:02 p.m. PST |
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| Fishbuckle | 06 Jul 2014 1:13 p.m. PST |
So the mystery remains! It surely can't just be a cunning marketing trick, can it?! (Thanks for the YouTube link, RavenscraftCybernetics. I hadn't heard that song before!) |
| boudin noir | 07 Jul 2014 2:28 a.m. PST |
Isn't there a 'Bloody something' on the route of the Royalist retreat from Nasby? It probably refers to a small-ish skirmish at which Charles was nowhere near. |
| Timbo W | 08 Jul 2014 6:06 a.m. PST |
Mysterious! could be some random skirmish that nobody recorded I guess. The only thing that rings a bell for me is the storm of Canon Frome by Leven's Scots in July 1645. This ended in a massacre of the Royalist defenders after one of the Scots Generals (iirc Crawford, late of Manchester's army) was killed in the assault. Canon Frome is about 8 miles away from Bromyard, so unsure whether this counts! I guess the 'Cromwell' and 'King Charles' bits should be taken with a pinch of salt as nearly every local story involving the Civil War has them there in person….. |
| Fishbuckle | 08 Jul 2014 7:05 a.m. PST |
I'm starting to think there is a chance something might have happened in the area and the company just jumped on it as a convenient marketing tool. Because, you know, us wargamers like our historically themed beverages! |
| Fried Flintstone | 07 Sep 2014 3:50 p.m. PST |
From Wikipedia
1645. Edward Massey, the Governor of Gloucester, stormed and took Evesham, thus severing the Royalist line of march from Worcester to Oxford. Charles marched to Inkberrow, Droitwich, Bromsgrove, and on to Leicester and then to Naseby, where he was defeated; then back by Kidderminster, Bewdley to Hereford and South Wales. The Scottish army came to the help of the English, and marched to Alcester on their way to attack Worcester, but turned off to Droitwich, Bewdley, and so to Hereford, which they besieged. Charles marched north, and working round reached Oxford. Having got some troops together, he marched to the relief of Hereford. He stayed several days in Worcester, marched from there to Bromyard and on to Hereford, but on his approach the Scotch raised the siege, marched to Gloucester, crossed the Severn, then marching through Cheltenham, Evesham, to Stratford-on-Avon on their way towards Newark. It seems to infer he went through Bromyard so I guess there could have been a skirmish in the are. |
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