Battle of South Harting
The Battle of South Harting was a skirmish that took place on 23 November 1643 in the village of South Harting, in West Sussex, during the First English Civil War between a Royalist detachment of the Earl of Crawford's Regiment of Horse who had quartered for the night in the village, and a Parliamentarian force consisting of Colonel Richard Norton and his own Regiment of Horse, who later that night came upon Crawford's men in the village by chance. It is notable for the nature in which the Parliamentarians were defeated; that being some 400 Parliamentarian dragoons routed by a clever act of deception carried out by just 6 mounted officers together with a boy, and helped to boost morale in Royalist circles at the time.
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