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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dunbar_%281650%29>
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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>
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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>
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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>