Lambert defeated Sir George Booth's Royalist-Presbyterian rising at Winnington Bridge in August 1659 — his last battlefield victory. Booth had mobilised Cheshire and Lancashire for Charles II; Lambert marched rapidly from London to crush him. The victory gave Lambert enormous prestige but he overplayed his hand politically, expelling the Rump Parliament in October. His subsequent confrontation with Monck in the north, and the bloodless dissolution of his army, led directly to the Restoration.
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