25 August 1651. James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, had sailed from the Isle of Man days earlier with a small Royalist force to join Charles II's march into England. At Wigan Lane in Lancashire, Colonel Robert Lilburne's Parliamentary cavalry intercepted them. The engagement was brief and devastating. Derby was wounded and most of his men were killed or captured. He escaped and reached the King, but the force he had brought from the Island was destroyed. Within weeks, Derby would fight at Worcester, be captured, and be executed at Bolton.