This Day in History: 1645-03-15

On 15th March 1645, Nathan Drake, Royalist diarist, recorded: ‘ there went out a p’ty towards Dauncaster and…they mett with Collonell Brandlin’s regiment and routed them, tooke one Major, one Captin, one Leiutenant, 3 officers, 67 Souldyers and about 100 horse…’