Marston Moor, Battle of (1664) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
... Moor, Battle of (July 2, 1664 ) Decisive engagement in the English Civil War , 11km (7mi) w of York. Parliamentarians, led by Thomas Fairfax and allied with Scots, defeated the Royalist forces under Prince Rupert...
Marston Moor, Battle of (2 July 1644) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
... Moor, Battle of ( 2 July 1644 ) A decisive victory for the Roundheads and Scots during the English Civil War . The Cavalier general Prince Rupert had pursued them to Marston Moor, Yorkshire, after his relief of York. They attacked him unexpectedly in the evening, and Cromwell’s disciplined cavalry routed the Royalist troops. The Cavaliers lost perhaps 3000 men through casualties, and 4500 prisoners. After the encounter few northern fortresses held out for the...
Marston Moor, battle of Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
... Moor, battle of , 1644 . In the early summer of 1644 Charles I 's forces in the north were pressed between the Scots under Alexander Leslie , Lord Leven , and parliamentary armies under Fairfax and Manchester , moving into south Yorkshire. The marquis of Newcastle fell back upon York, heavily fortified. In June Rupert set out from Lancashire to relieve the city. On 2 July he gave battle at Marston Moor, in flat pasture land west of the city, with roughly 18,000 men against 27,000. Rupert's defeat was severe and he was said to have been forced...
Marston Moor, battle of (1644) Reference library
J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
... Moor, battle of , 1644 . In the early summer of 1644 Charles I ’s forces in the north were pressed between the Scots under Alexander Leslie , Lord Leven , and parliamentary armies under Fairfax and Manchester , moving into south Yorkshire. The marquis of Newcastle fell back upon York, heavily fortified. In June Rupert set out from Lancashire to relieve the city. On 1 July, crossing the Ure at Boroughbridge, he outflanked his opponents massed west of York to intercept him, and made contact with the defenders. The following day he gave battle...
Marston Moor, battle of (1644) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Military History
... Moor, battle of ( 1644 ). Marston Moor was the largest and most important battle of the British civil wars , although its results were not immediately decisive. A strong Scots army, commanded by the Earl of Leven, crossed the Tweed in January 1644 and advanced southwards, first meeting parliamentarian forces under Lord Fairfax and his son Sir Thomas Fairfax , and then being joined by the Earl of Manchester's forces from East Anglia. The Marquess of Newcastle, royalist commander in the north, fell back into York. Charles I regarded the city as...
Marston Moor, Battle of Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... Moor, Battle of a battle of the English Civil War, fought in 1644 on Marston Moor near York, in which the Royalist armies of Prince Rupert and the Duke of Newcastle suffered a defeat by the English and Scottish Parliamentary armies which fatally weakened Charles I's...
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