On 13 November 1642 the London Trained Bands and associated forces, numbering approximately 24,000, deployed at Turnham Green to bar the Royalist advance on London after Brentford. The mass of citizen soldiers proved too strong for Charles I to attack, and he ordered a withdrawal to Oxford. The Trained Bands were the decisive element, their sheer numbers making any Royalist assault suicidal.
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