The action at Seacroft Moor on 30 March 1643 was a severe Parliamentary defeat in Yorkshire. Sir Thomas Fairfax was marching his infantry from Leeds to Selby without adequate cavalry cover when George Goring's Royalist horse fell on the column. The Parliamentary foot, unable to form effective resistance, lost 200 killed and 800 taken prisoner. It was one of several reverses that preceded the disaster at Adwalton Moor and showed how vulnerable Parliamentary forces were when operating in Royalist-dominated Yorkshire.
c.200 Parliamentary killed; c.800 captured
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