The Lostwithiel campaign of August-September 1644 saw the King systematically encircle the Earl of Essex Parliamentary army in the Fowey peninsula; Essex escaped by sea while his cavalry cut out under Balfour, but his infantry was forced to surrender at Fowey, the greatest Royalist field success of the war.
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