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MEMORIALS
AND MONUMENTS
SABBATH DAY FIGHT
MEMORIAL
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22 September 2011
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In Freedom Fields Park,
overlooking Plymouth Town, is situated the monument to an action in the Civil War.
Upon this spot on Sunday
December 3, 1643, after hard fighting
for several hours, the Roundhead
Garrison of Plymouth made their
final rally and routed the Cavalier
Army which had surprised the Outworks
and well nigh taken the town.
For many years it was the custom to
celebrate the anniversary of this victory,
long known as the 'Sabbath-day fight',
and recorded as the 'Great Deliverance'
of the protracted siege
successfully sustained by Troops and
Townsfolk on behalf of the Parliament
against the King under great hardships
for more than three years |
On another panel is: ~ Fought
in the Mayoralty of John Cawse, 1643. Commemorated in the Mayoralty of J T Bond,
1891. ~
Sources:
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