The Second Civil War Kentish rising of May-June 1648 spread rapidly through the north Kent towns of Sittingbourne and Faversham as the county gentry and common people alike rose against Parliamentary rule and the county committee. The rising gathered approximately 10,000 men before being decisively defeated at Maidstone by Fairfax in June 1648.
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