Battle of Radcot Bridge

Battle of Radcot Bridge
	; Robert de Vere fleeing Radcot Bridge, from the Gruthuse manuscript of Froissart's Chroniques (c. 1475).
Date	19 December 1387
Location	Radcot Bridge, Oxfordshire
Result	Decisive Lords Appellant victory
Belligerents
Royalists	Lords Appellant
Commanders and leaders
Robert de Vere	Henry Bolingbroke
Strength
c. 4,000	c. 4,500
Casualties and losses
3	None

The Battle of Radcot Bridge was fought on 19 December 1387 in medieval England between troops loyal to Richard II, led by court favourite Robert de Vere, and an army captained by Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby. It took place at Radcot Bridge, a bridge over the River Thames, now in Oxfordshire, but then the boundary between Oxfordshire and Berkshire.

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