Before his defeat at Stratton Hopton was surprised at night at Sourton Down by Parliamentary cavalry using improvised firecracker alarms to simulate volley fire; the Royalists panicked and the incident revealed the vulnerabilities of Hopton army that would later be overcome at Stratton; one of the more dramatic night actions of the Civil War.
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