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After landing from the Netherlands at Lyme Regis in Dorset, the Duke eventually led his untrained and ill-equipped troops on a night-time attack on the King's position on the site of Bussex Farm outside the village of Westonzoyland . Unfortunately the element of surprise was lost when a musket was accidentally discharged, and the Battle of Sedgemoor resulted in defeat for the Duke by the Royal army under John Churchill (later Duke of Marlborough) and the Earl of Feversham.

Monmouth escaped the battlefield, but was captured near RingwoodThis article is about the town of Ringwood in England. See also Ringwood, New Jersey, and Ringwood, Victoria. Ringwood is a town in Hampshire, England, on the River Avon, to the west of the New Forest and north of Bournemouth. The town was traditionally a HampshireHampshire is a county on the south coast of England. The 2001 census gave the population of the administrative county as 1. 24 million; the population including Portsmouth and Southampton was around 1. It borders on Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey an. He was taken to the Tower of LondonThe Tower of London is officially Her Majesty's Palace and Fortress, The Tower of London although the last ruler to reside in it as a palace was King James I ( 1566- 1625). The White Tower the square building with turrets on each corner that gave it its n in LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri where he was, after several blows of the axe, finally beheaded.

The king sent the infamous Judge Jeffreys to round up the Duke's supporters throughout the south west and try them in the Bloody AssizesThe Bloody Assizes were the series of trials in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion in England. James II of England sent the infamous Judge Jeffreys to round up and try the defeated supporters of the rebel Duke of. About 1,300 people were found guilty, many being transported abroad, while some were executed by drawing and quarteringDrawing and quartering was part of the penalty anciently ordained in England for treason. It is considered by many to be the epitome of "cruel" punishment and was reserved for traitors because treason was deemed more heinous than murder and other capital.

James II was overthrown in a coup d'état three years later, in the Glorious RevolutionThe Glorious Revolution ( 1688- 1689) is an event in which the Stuart king James II (James VII of Scotland) was removed from his thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, and replaced by William of the House of Orange and his wife and joint sovereign Mary.

The battle of Sedgemoor is often referred to as the last battle fought on English soil, but this is incorrect: the Battle of Preston in Lancashire was fought on 14 November 1715, during the First Jacobite Rebellion, and the Second Jacobite Rebellion saw a minor engagement at Clifton Moor near Penrith in Cumbria on 18 December 1745.