Following the breaking of the rebel line at Clyst Heath and Clyst St Mary, surviving western rebels fell back toward Woodbury Common where some attempted to regroup. Lord Russell and his cavalry pursued aggressively, and the dispersal on the common eliminated any possibility of the western army reconstituting. Many rebels were cut down in the pursuit across the open ground of the common.
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