<P> Glencairn's rising </P> <Ul> <Li> Tullich </Li> <Li> Dalnaspidal </Li> </Ul> <P> The Battle of Preston (17--19 August 1648), fought largely at Walton - le - Dale near Preston in Lancashire, resulted in a victory for the New Model Army under the command of Oliver Cromwell over the Royalists and Scots commanded by the Duke of Hamilton . The Parliamentarian victory presaged the end of the Second English Civil War . </P> <P> On 8 July 1648, when the Scottish Engager army crossed the Border in support of the English Royalist, the military situation was well defined . For the Parliamentarians, Cromwell besieged Pembroke in South Wales, Fairfax besieged Colchester in Essex, and Colonel Edward Rossiter besieged Pontefract and Scarborough in the north . On 11 July, Pembroke fell and Colchester followed on 28 August . Elsewhere, however, the rebellion, which had been put down by rapidity of action rather than sheer weight of numbers, still smouldered . Charles, the Prince of Wales, with the fleet cruised along the Essex coast . Cromwell and John Lambert, however, understood each other perfectly, while the Scottish commanders quarrelled with each other and with Sir Marmaduke Langdale (the English Royalist commander in the north west). </P>

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