The most consequential non-battle of the Civil War. After Brentford, Londoners poured out to Turnham Green — perhaps 24,000 Trained Band militia — to confront the Royalist army. Charles I, outnumbered and facing a city that refused to yield, withdrew to Oxford. This was the moment the war became a long conflict rather than a Royalist walkover. The Civil War's duration — and all its consequences — stem from this stand-off.
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