Synopses & Reviews
This is the definitive account of the last pitched battle fought on English soil, when the attempt by James Scott, Duke of Monmouth and son of Charles II, to seize the throne was crushed by the Royalist army under Lord Feversham. 300 of his followers were sentenced to death during the infamous Judge Jeffrey's Bloody Assizes and Monmouth was subsequently beheaded on Tower Hill.
Synopsis
In June 1685 the Duke of Monmouth, bastard son of Charles II, landed an army of eight thousand men at Lyme Regis, Dorset, in an attempt to seize the throne. He was met and defeated at Sedgemoor by the Royalist army under Lord Feversham.