Battle of St Fagans

Part of the Second English Civil War

Date	8 May 1648
Location	St Fagans, Wales
Result	Parliamentarian victory

Belligerents

Royalists

New Model Army (detachment)

Commanders and leaders

Colonel John Poyer
Major-General Rowland Laugharne
Colonel Rice Powell

Colonel Thomas Horton

Strength

7,500 infantry
500 cavalry

900 horse
800 dragoons
1,000 foot

Casualties and losses

200+ dead
3,000+ captured

Coordinates: 51°29′09″N 3°16′23″W / 51.48593°N 3.27309°W / 51.48593; -3.27309

The Battle of St Fagans was a pitched battle in the Second English Civil War in 1648. A detachment from the New Model Army defeated an army of former Parliamentarian soldiers who had rebelled and were now fighting against Parliament.

In April 1648, Parliamentarian troops in Wales, who had not been paid for a long time and feared that they were about to be disbanded without their arrears of pay, staged a Royalist rebellion under the command of Colonel John Poyer, the Governor of Pembroke Castle. He was joined by Major-General Rowland Laugharne, his district commander, and Colonel Rice Powell.

Colonel Thomas Horton with a detachment of just under 3,000 well-disciplined troops from the New Model Army, was sent by Sir Thomas Fairfax to secure south Wales for Parliament and to crush the rebellion. He had one and a half regiments of Horse (cavalry), most of Colonel John Okey's regiment of Dragoons and most of a regiment of Foot (infantry). Horton at first advanced westwards through Wales towards Carmarthen, but then had to march hastily to Brecon to forestall an uprising there. From Brecon, he then marched south to Cardiff, occupying the town before the Royalists could do so. His force took up quarters in and around St Fagans, west of the town.

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