Three weeks after Drumclog, the Covenanting army — swollen to perhaps 6,000 but bitterly divided between moderates and extremists — was caught at Bothwell Bridge. The army spent the morning arguing theology while Monmouth prepared. A small group of Covenanters held the bridge heroically before being overwhelmed. The army then broke without significant fighting. The prisoners marched to Edinburgh and kept in Greyfriars Kirkyard through winter became the Greyfriars Martyrs. Bothwell Bridge ended organised armed Covenanting resistance.
c.400-700 Covenanters killed; c.1,200 captured
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