Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Bovey Heath

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The result was: promoted by  — Amakuru (talk) 18:55, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Battle of Bovey Heath

  • ... that during the Battle of Bovey Heath, Royalist officers escaped by "throwing their stakes of money", which the enemy soldiers paused to collect? Source: "officers ... only escaped by throwing their stakes of money out of window among the Round Heads; which whilst our soldiers ... were scrambling for, the escaped out at a back door". (Besley, Henry (1846). The Route Book of Devon: A Guide for the stranger and tourist. p. 257.)

5x expanded by Harrias (talk). Self-nominated at 10:34, 12 September 2019 (UTC).

  • @Harrias: Recent expansion and sufficiently long, well-cited, hook interesting and cited in article. No copyvio detected by tool, just pending QPQ now. Juxlos (talk) 17:24, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
  • Good to go then. Juxlos (talk) 08:59, 20 September 2019 (UTC)