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FALMOUTH AND TRURO 105 town itself does not appear to have seen any fighting during the Civil War — it is certainly quite indefensible ; but at Tresillian Bridge, about three and a half miles east, at the head of the creek so named, the desperate struggle of Cornish Royalists was brought to a close by the surrender of Sir Ralph Hopton to Fairfax.
