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Loading... NASEBY: The Decisive Campaignby Glenn Foard
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The Battle of Naseby on 14 June 1645 was a devastating victory for the New Model Army commanded by Fairfax and Cromwell. It determined the fate of Charles I and secured the future of Parliamentary democracy. Naseby rivals Hastings as one of the most important battles fought on English soil. In this fascinating study Glenn Foard reviews the whole Naseby campaign in unprecedented and vivid detail. He places the event in its regional and national context and provides intriguing new archaeological and documentary evidence. No library descriptions found. |
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Foard is correct in assessing that the Royalists mostly lost not due to Rupert’s impetuous charge but to the banal game of numbers. While the new New Model Army concentrated its forces, the King frittered away his declining strength (and alienated the population further by the depredations caused by his troops). Fairfax and Cromwell absorbed the Royalist attack and in the push-back managed to rout and capture a large part of the Royalist forces. (