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First Battle of Weymouth
(The Crabchurch Conspiracy)
Part of The First English Civil War

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Date9 February 1645
Location
Weymouth, Dorset
Result Royalist victory
Territorial
changes
Weymouth was lost to the Royalists
Belligerents
Battle of Weymouth Royalists Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Lewis Dyve
William Hastings
William Sydenham
Strength
1,500 1,200
Second Battle of Weymouth
Part of the First English Civil War
Date27 February 1645
Location
Weymouth, Dorset
Result Parliamentarian victory
Territorial
changes
Weymouth was regained by the Parliamentarians
Belligerents
Battle of Weymouth Royalists Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Lewis Dyve
James Heane
Lord Goring
William Sydenham
Strength
6,500 1,200

The Battle of Weymouth and the associated Crabchurch Conspiracy occurred in 1645, during the First English Civil War, when several royalist plotters within the twin towns of Weymouth and Melcombe on the Dorset coast conspired to deliver the ports back into the control of King Charles I.

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