The Battle of Maidstone on 1 June 1648 was the decisive engagement of the Kentish Royalist rising in the Second Civil War. Fairfax stormed the town house by house in a bloody night fight through the streets, with the Royalists defending barricades and rooftops until the last. Approximately 1,200 Royalists were killed or taken in the town; the surviving leaders crossed the Thames to join the Colchester rising.
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