2-648-651 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Prince Rupert at Edgehill', 23 October 1642, (c1880). The Battle of Edgehill (or Edge Hill) was the first pitched battle of the First English Civil War, fought on on Sunday, 23 October 1642. Royalist cavalry for Charles I (1600-1649), under Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619-1682) routed the cavalry of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591-1646) vanguard at the Battle of Powick Bridge. From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. I, by James Grant. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, c1880]