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SIR CHARLES LUCAS (d. 1648)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 93 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:CHARLES See also:LUCAS (d. 1648)  , See also:English soldier, was the son of See also:Sir See also:Thomas See also:Lucas of See also:Colchester, See also:Essex . As a See also:young See also:man he saw service in the See also:Netherlands under the command of his See also:brother, and in the " Bishops' See also:War " he commanded a See also:troop of See also:horse in See also:King See also:Charles I.'s See also:army . In 1639 he was made a See also:knight . At the outbreak of the See also:Civil War Lucas naturally took the king's See also:side, and at the first See also:cavalry fight, Powick See also:Bridge, he was wounded . See also:Early in 1643 he raised a See also:regiment of horse, with which he defeated See also:Middleton at Padbury on See also:July 1st . In See also:January 1644 he commanded the forces attacking See also:Nottingham, and soon afterwards, on See also:Prince See also:Rupert's recommendation, he was made See also:lieutenant-See also:general of See also:Newcastle's See also:Northern army . When New-See also:castle was shut up in See also:York, Lucas and the cavalry remained in the open See also:country, and when Rupert's relieving army crossed the mountains into See also:Yorkshire he was quickly joined by New-castle's squadrons . At See also:Marston See also:Moor Lucas swept See also:Fairfax's Yorkshire horse before him, but later in the See also:day he was taken prisoner . Exchanged during the See also:winter, he defended See also:Berkeley Castle for a See also:short See also:time against Rainsborough, but was soon in the See also:field again . As lieutenant-general of all the horse he accompanied See also:Lord See also:Astley in the last See also:campaign of the first war, and, taken prisoner at See also:Stow-on-the-Wold, he engaged not to See also:bear arms against See also:parliament in the future . This See also:parole he must be held to have broken when he took a prominent See also:part in the seizure of Colchester in 1648 . That See also:place was soon invested, and finally See also:fell, after a desperate resistance, to Fairfax's army .

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superior See also:officers had to surrender " at See also:mercy," and Lucas and Sir See also:George See also:Lisle were immediately tried by See also:court See also:martial and sentenced to See also:death . The two Royalists were shot the same evening in the Castle of Colchester . See See also:Lloyd, See also:Memoirs of Excellent Personages (1669) ; and See also:Earl de See also:Grey, A Memoir of the See also:Life of Sir Charles Lucas (1845) .

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