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battle of st fagans wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 background 2 battle 3 aftermath 4 references 5 sources 6 further reading 7 external links toggle the table of contents battle of st fagans 5 languages العربية cymraeg español polski ไทย edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia second english civil war battle in south wales battle of st fagans part of the second english civil war royalist commander and former parliamentarian rowland laugharne date 8 may 1648 location st fagans wales result parliamentarian victory belligerents royalists parliamentarians commanders and leaders gen rowland laugharne john poyer rice powell thomas horton john okey strength 7 500 infantry 500 cavalry 900 horse 800 dragoons 1 000 foot casualties and losses 200 killed 3 000 captured unknown v t e second english civil war st fagans pembroke maidstone st neots y dalar hir colchester scottish invasion preston winwick the battle of st fagans took place on 8 may 1648 near st fagans in south glamorgan during the second english civil war a detachment from the veteran parliamentarian new model army defeated a royalist force primarily composed of mutinous former parliamentarian soldiers and ill equipped levies their defeat ended significant royalist resistance in wales background edit much of wales had been a royalist stronghold during the first english civil war and was thus considered a sensitive area by parliament 1 concern increased after messages were intercepted from the irish confederacy offering support to charles i since royalist control of cardiff and milford haven would allow them to ship irish troops to england 2 in addition the local parliamentarian commanders john poyer and rowland laugharne were viewed by the new model commanders as unreliable in july they ordered 3 000 men under colonel thomas horton to replace laugharne and secure these positions 3 the revolt began in pembrokeshire an area that had been controlled by parliament since early 1643 like their new model colleagues the soldiers had not been paid for months and feared being disbanded without their wages in early march 1648 both poyer governor of pembroke castle and rice powell who held tenby castle refused to hand them over to officers of the new model and were supported by laugharne 4 st fagans cardiff bangor pembroke tenby chepstow anglesey harlech brecon raglan carmarthen wales 1648 key locations what began as a dispute over pay turned political when the mutineers made contact with charles conversely most former royalists had been released after swearing not to bear arms against parliament and thus did not participate one exception being sir nicholas kemeys who held chepstow castle for the king by the end of april laugharne had assembled around 8 000 troops and was marching on cardiff 5 horton initially moved on carmarthen but then had to put down an uprising in brecon before occupying cardiff and quartering his troops in and around st fagans west of the town 6 learning that reinforcements led by oliver cromwell were on their way laugharne decided to attack horton before they could arrive although horton s 3 000 men were outnumbered up to half of laugharne s force were poorly trained and equipped proving to be little match for experienced veterans 7 battle edit woods near the site of the battle photographed in 2022 early on the morning of 8 may parliamentarian scouts made contact with the royalist army about 3 kilometres 2 mi outside st fagans horton quickly deployed his troops outside the village taking command of the centre which contained most of the infantry the cavalry and dragoons were split between the left wing led by john okey and the right under nathaniel barton with two small mixed units or forlorn hopes directly in front 8 laugharne formed up his forces along a wooded ridge 1 2 kilometres 0 7 mi northwest of the village a stream known as the nant dowlais separated the two armies shortly before 8 00 am laugharne sent 500 infantry across the stream to attack horton s centre hoping to take the parliamentarians by surprise inside the village this advance guard was routed by a charge by some of horton s cavalry and the parliamentarians were able to deploy in the open the battle now became general in the open area to the north west of the village in the centre high hedges hampered horton s horsemen but okey s dragoons forced both royalist wings back eventually parliamentarian horse under major bethel were able to make a charge against the royalist left and rear the royalists panicked and broke over 200 of laugharne s men were killed and another 3 000 were taken prisoner aftermath edit laugharne retreated with what was left of his army to join poyer at pembroke while horton besieged rice powell in tenby castle cromwell reached gloucester on the day of the battle then crossed into wales shortly afterwards colonel isaac ewer and a small force were left to invest chepstow castle while cromwell joined horton at tenby on 15 may leaving horton with enough men to deal with powell cromwell marched the rest of the army to besiege pembroke when these fortresses fell cromwell was able to march back into england to defeat an invading scottish army at the decisive battle of preston cromwell had been considerably delayed dealing with laugharne but would have been even more so if laugharne s field army had not been effectively destroyed at st fagans references edit royle 2004 p 440 royle 2004 pp 431 432 royle 2004 p 432 royle 2004 p 431 royle 2004 p 434 royle 2004 p 435 royle 2004 pp 435 436 okey john a true and particular relation of the late victory obtained by colonel horton colonel okey against the welsh forces under major generall langhorn expressed in a letter from colonel okey to a friend of his in london oxford text archive retrieved 11 june 2024 sources edit gaunt peter 1991 a nation under siege the civil war in wales 1642 isbn 0 11 701222 x royle trevor 2004 civil war the wars of the three kingdoms 1638 1660 2006 ed abacus isbn 978 0 349 11564 1 further reading edit castelow ellen battle of st fagans historic uk historic uk ltd retrieved 27 august 2020 external links edit wales and the civil war st fagans glamorganshire 8 may 1648 archived 21 august 2006 at the wayback machine authority control databases national united states israel retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title battle_of_st_fagans oldid 1370589809 categories second english civil war 1648 in england battles of the english civil wars battles involving wales 1648 conflicts wales in the english civil war 1648 in wales st fagans military history of cardiff hidden categories articles with short description short description is different from wikidata use dmy dates from april 2021 use british english from march 2012 all wikipedia articles written in british english webarchive template wayback links this page was last edited on 22 august 2026 at 00 31 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc a non profit organization privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia legal safety contacts 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