Anyone who could count could have predicted that the Monmouth Rebellion was ill fated. When James, Duke of Monmouth, sailed into the Harbour at Lyme on 11 June 1685, his invasion force consisted of just 83 men and three ships, two of which were fishing vessels.
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Dorset Churches
ST MARTIN, WAREHAM

St Martin’s Church (full name St Martin-on-the-Walls) is best known for the life-sized recumbent effigy of T E Lawrence in full Arab dress. Eric Kennington, who was the official war artist for the First and Second World Wars, carved it out of Purbeck marble and Portland stone between 1936 and 1939. Lawrence is wearing a headdress and holding camel whips, two books: the Greek Anthology of Verse & the Oxford Book of English Verse and a dagger given to him by Prince Faisal.