Prince Rupert stormed Brentford on 12 November 1642 while peace negotiations were nominally underway, routing Holles Regiment and Brooke Regiment in a surprise attack. The Royalist army spent the night in Brentford before Parliamentary forces blocked further advance. The sack of the town inflamed Parliamentary opinion and was used as propaganda proof of Royalist bad faith.
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