 | | | Battle of Worcester - pre battle timeline | |
|  | | The rough position before the fighting began |
| | Follow the ebbs and flows of the Battle of Worcester as it developed on the 3rd of September 1651. |
| | | Charles had been in exile in France and landed in Scotland on the 23rd June 1650.
The Scottish army lost the battle of Dunbar to Cromwell's Parliamentary forces on the
3rd September 1650.
Charles crossed into England at the head of a Scottish army on 1st August 1651.
On the 22nd of August Charles and his army arrived in Worcester and began to fortify the city against the expected attack.
It wasn't until the 27th of August that Cromwell's Parliamentarian forces arrived at Evesham.
Cromwell set about cutting of Charles's escape routes and laying siege to the city.
The Royalists were determined to stop The Parliamentarians crossing to the west bank of the River Severn, and so sent troops to Upton on Severn, and demolished the middle of the bridge.
Unfortunately they left a plank across the middle of the bridge and Major General Lambert's troops fought their way across and into the town.
The famous Pepperpot Tower in Upton still bears the scars of the fighting.
The Scots now took up defensive positions on the Worcester side of the River Teme.
They planned to holdPowick bridge, the scene of the first clash of the Civil War nine years earlier.
The Parliamentary forces now took up positions on the high ground to the east of the city walls.
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