The largest provincial rising of the Second Civil War began in Kent; 10,000 Royalist insurgents held Maidstone; Fairfax stormed the town in bitter street fighting; survivors fled north to cross the Thames and join the siege of Colchester; the action showed the New Model Army professional superiority over enthusiastic but untrained Royalists.
Several hundred killed in street fighting
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