Battle of Dunbar

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Article abstract: Type of action: Ground battle in the English Civil War of 1642-1651. Result: Scots fail to repel English invasion.

At the end of July, 1650, as Oliver Cromwell’s 16,000 troops entered Scotland to undo the proclamation of Charles II as king, David Leslie, under the nominal command of Alexander Leslie, earl of Leven, directed the evacuation and devastation of southern Scotland and fortified Edinburgh. Cromwell, with a force eventually reduced to 11,000 to 12,000 by privation and disease, retreated to Dunbar on the east coast of Scotland....

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