The Battle of Dunbar was fought between the English New Model Army, under Oliver Cromwell, and a Scottish army, commanded by David Leslie, on 3 September 1650 near Dunbar, Scotland. The first major battle of the Third English Civil War, it was decisively won by the English. The English crossed into Scotland in July, and Cromwell attempted to draw the Scots into a set-piece battle, but the Scots resisted. At the end of August Cromwell withdrew to the port of Dunbar. The Scottish army followed, and before dawn the English launched a surprise attack on the Scots, who were poorly prepared. The fighting was restricted to the north-eastern flank. Lesley was unable to reinforce those fighting, while Cromwell used his last reserve to outflank the Scots. The Scottish cavalry broke and routed; the Scottish infantry made a fighting retreat but suffered heavily. Between 300 and 500 Scots were killed, with approximately 1,000 wounded and about 6,000 or more taken prisoner from an army of 12,500 or fewer.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1651:
English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Worcester
1901:
The flag of Australia flew for the first time from the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Australia
1991:
A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire
2001:
The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary school in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Cross_dispute
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
bosk: 1. (obsolete except dialectal) A bush. 2. (archaic) A thicket; a small wood. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bosk
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Unceasingly the essence of things is taking shape in the matter of things, and this unspeakable process we call birth and growth. Awhile the spirit and the matter fade away together, and it is this that we call decadence, death. These two happenings seem jointed and interdependent, blended into one like a bubble and its iridescence, and they seem borne along upon a slowly moving air. This air is wonderful past all understanding. --Louis Sullivan https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan