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"Hopton" is a common misspelling or typo for: hoptons. |
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Date "Hopton" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references) |
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| Literature | Hopton When in doubt, kill Hopton. Sir Ralph Hopton was a Royalist general. During the Civil Wars we read that Hopton was killed over and over again; thus, in Diurnal Occurrences, Dec. 5th, 1642, we read, "It was likewise this day reported that Sir Ralph Hopton is either dead or dangerously sicke." Five months later we read in Special Passages, May 6th, 1643, of Hopton's death after a fight on Roborough Down, in Devonshire. And again, May 15th, 1643, we read of his death in A True Relation of the Proceedings of the Cornish Forces. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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| Battle of Hopton Heath | The Battle of Hopton Heath, in Staffordshire, was a battle of the First English Civil War, fought on Sunday 19 March 1643 between Parliamentarian forces led by Sir John Gell and Sir William Brereton and a Royalist force under Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton. Gell had successfully taken Lichfield and was on his way with about 1,500 men and some artillery pieces to join Brereton in a projected attack on Stafford. They met at Hopton Heath and were attacked there by the Royalists, whose force consisted of about 1,100 cavalry, 100 foot and artillery, including a large piece called "Roaring Meg". After an artillery barrage the Royalist cavalry charged the entrenched parliamentarians, putting Gell's dragoons and his and Brereton's horse to flight. A second charge was repelled by Gell's musketeers and Northampton was unhorsed. He refused to surrender and was killed. During the night the Parliamentarian troops withdrew, leaving a large part of Gell's artillery in the enemy's hands. Brereton withdrew to Nantwich while Gell marched through Uttoxeter to Derby, taking Northampton's body with him. He attempted to ransom the Earl's body for the return of the captured artillery pieces, without success. (references) | ||
| Hopton Incline | The Hopton Incline was a very steep section of a mineral railway in England worked by adhesion. Its gradient was 1 in 14 (7%). (references) | ||
| Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton | Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton (1598-1652) was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War. (references) | ||
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Extended Definition: HOPTONHoptonThere are a number of places in England known as Hopton:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Hopton". Image Credit. |
Topics by Level of Interest: HOPTON | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Battle of Hopton Heath | 7 | Battle of Hopton Heath | 7 | |
| Hopton Heath railway station | 7 | Hopton | 3 | |
| Hopton Castle | 7 | Hopton Cangeford | 3 | |
| Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton | 6 | Hopton Castle | 7 | |
| Hopton Castle (structure) | 5 | Hopton Castle (structure) | 5 | |
| Hopton Heath | 4 | Hopton Heath | 4 | |
| Hopton Incline | 3 | Hopton Heath railway station | 7 | |
| Hopton Cangeford | 3 | Hopton Incline | 3 | |
| Hopton | 3 | Hopton Wafers | 2 | |
| Hopton Wafers | 2 | Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton | 6 | |
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| Japanese | 跳躍トン (Hopton, hoptons). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Hopton. (volunteer & more translations) | |||
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