Colonel Horton wrote this description of the soldiers: So we advanced with horse and foot upon them, with 200 firelocks and foot, with dragoons mounted on horse... the enemy's foot soldiers stood very stoutly, until our horse began to surround them and they presently all ran, and we cleared the field, our horses and dragoons pursuing them for eight or 10 miles. The whole number of horse and foot soldiers is now confirmed at about 8,000 - they had about 2,500 musketeers, besides bills, pikes and clubs. The number of prisoners that are taken are about 3,000. Some hundreds of them who disarmed four or eight miles from the place we fought, which we let go.
Look carefully at the names of the soldiers in Colonel Horton's description. The pictures below show how the armies were equipped. Now that you have looked at the illustrations, drag the correct statements that describe each of the armies at the Battle of St Fagan's into the boxes provided. Who was the most likely to win when the fighting started? Parliament's forces or royalist forces? |