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The increasingly demoralised Parliamentarian infantry fell back towards Fowey in pouring rain.

They were forced to abandon several guns which became bogged down in the muddy roads.

On 1 September, the pursuing Royalists captured Castle Dore, another ruined fortification which the Parliamentarians were using to anchor their lines.

Essex left Sir Philip Skippon, his Sergeant Major General of Foot, in command while he himself escaped to Plymouth in a fishing boat.