Battlefields Trust Mercia Region Quiz

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Battles and battlefields in Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

1. ‘Oh Lord thou knowest how busy I must be this day, if I forget thee do not thou forget me’. Which royalist general is famous for this battle prayer?

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Price Rupert

Sir Jacob Astley

Lord Hopton

Patrick Ruthven

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2. At which one of these battles was Warwick the Kingmaker present?

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Edgcote 1469

Tewkesbury 1471

Northampton 1460

Wakefield 1460

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3. Dust Hill and Broadmoor are associated with which battle?

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Edgcote, 1469

Naseby, 1645

First Newbury, 1643

Edgehill, 1642

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4. In 1387 the future King Henry IV defeated the Earl of Oxford at the Battle of Radcot Bridge. What was Henry's title at the time?

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The Earl of Derby

The Earl of Gloucester

The Earl of Arundel

The Earl of Warwick

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5. Next to which battlefield would you find this monument (above}?

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First Newbury, 1643

Edgehill, 1642

Barnet, 1471

Chalgrove, 1643

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6. At which battle did William, Lord Berkeley defeat and kill Thomas, Viscount Lisle?

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Tewkesbury, 1471

Edgcote, 1469

Nibley Green, 1470

Mortimer’s Cross, 1461

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7. Who were the opposing commanders at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge?

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Prince Rupert and Sir Thomas Fairfax

Lord Goring and Oliver Cromwell

King Charles I and Sir William Waller

Ralph, Lord Hopton and the Earl of Essex

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8. With which battle is this religious building (above) associated?

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Shrewsbury, 1403

Stow-on-the-Wold, 1646

Tewkesbury, 1471

Nantwich, 1644

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9. On 2 August 1265 the rebel forces of Simon de Montfort the younger were sleeping outside their castle at Kenilworth when they were massacred in a surprise attack by a royalist army. According to the Melrose Chronicler why weren't they inside their castle?

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There had been disease in the castle

The castle was infested with rats

They wanted to use the baths in Kenilworth town

Nobody could find the key to the castle gates

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10. Which battle is associated with the comment ‘Gentlemen, you may now sit down and play, for you have done all your work, if you fall not out amongst yourselves’

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Bosworth, 1485

Naseby, 1645

Stow-on-the-Wold, 1646

Worcester, 1651

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