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See also:MARSTON See also:MOOR, See also:BATTLE OF , was fought on the 2nd of See also:July 1644 on a moor (now enclosed) seven See also:miles See also:west of See also:York, between the Royalist See also:army under See also:Prince See also:Rupert and the See also:Parliamentary and Scottish armies under the See also:earl of See also:Manchester, See also:Lord Fairfaxand Lord See also:Leven. For the operations that preceded the battle see See also:GREAT See also:REBELLION. Rupert had relieved York and joined forces with the See also:marquess of See also:Newcastle's army that had defended that See also:city, and the Parliamentarians and Scots who had besieged it had See also:drawn off See also:south-westward followed by the Royalists. On the See also:morning of the 2nd of July, however, Rupert's attack on their rearguard forced them to See also:halt and deploy on rising ground on the south edge of the moor, their position being defined on the right and See also:left by See also:Long Marston and Tockwith and divided from the Royalist army on the moor by a See also:lane connecting these two villages. The respective forces were—Royalists about 18,000, Parliamentarians and Scots about 27,000. The armies stood front to front. On the Royalist right was See also:half the See also:cavalry under Rupert; the See also:infantry was in the centre in two lines and the left wing of cavalry was under See also:General (Lord) See also:Goring. The lane along the front was held by skirmishers. On the other See also:side the cavalry of the Eastern Association under Lieut.-General See also:Cromwell and that of the Scots under See also:Major-General See also:Leslie (Lord See also:Newark) formed the left, the infantry of the Eastern Association under Major-General See also:Crawford, of the Scots under Lord Leven, and of the See also:Yorkshire Parliamentarians under Lord See also:Fairfax was in the centre and the Yorkshire cavalry under See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Fairfax was on the right wing.
During the afternoon there was a desultory cannonade, but neither side advanced. At last, concluding from movements in the enemy's lines that there would be no fighting that See also:day, Rupert and Newcastle strolled away to their coaches and their soldiers dismounted and See also:lay down to See also:rest. But seeing this Cromwell instantly advanced his wing to the attack (5 p.m.). His dragoons drove away the skirmishers along the lane, and the See also:line cavalry crossed into the moor. The general forward See also:movement spread along the Parliamentary line from left to right, the Eastern Association infantry being the first to See also:cross the road. In Rupert's momentary See also:absence, the surprised Royalist cavalry could make no See also:head against Cromwell's See also:charge, although the latter was only made piecemeal as each unit crossed the lane and formed to the front. Rupert soon galloped up with his fresh second line and drove back Cromwell's men, Cromwell him-self being wounded, but Leslie and the Scots Cavalry, taking ground to their left, swung in upon Rupert's flank, and after a hard struggle the hitherto unconquered cavalry of the prince was broken and routed. Then, being unlike other cavalry of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, a thoroughly disciplined force, the Eastern Association cavalry rallied, leaving the pursuit to the Scots See also:light See also:horse. On the Parliamentary right, Goring had swept away the Yorkshire horse, and although most of his troopers had followed in disorderly pursuit, Sir See also:Charles See also:Lucas with some squadrons was attacking the exposed right of Leven's infantry. At the same time the Parliamentary infantry had mostly crossed the lane and was fighting at See also:close quarters and suffering severely, New-See also:castle's See also:north-See also:country " See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White-Coat " See also:brigade See also:driving back and finally penetrating their centre. Lord Leven gave up the battle as lost and rode away to Tadcaster. But the Scots on the right of the See also:foot held See also:firm against Lucas's attacks, and Cromwell and Leslie with their cavalry passed along the See also:rear of the Royal army, guided by Sir Thomas Fairfax (who though wounded in the rout of his Yorkshire horse had made his way to the other flank). Then, on the ground where Goring had routed Fairfax, Cromwell and Leslie won an easy victory over Goring's scattered and disordered horsemen. The Eastern Association infantry had followed the horse and was now in rear of the Royalists. The See also:original Parliamentary centre of foot, a remnant, but one containing only the bravest and steadiest men, held fast, and soon the Royalist infantry was broken up into isolated regiments and surrounded by the victorious horse and foot of the enemy. The White-Coats retreated into an enclosure and there defended themselves to the last See also:man. The rest were cut down on the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field or scattered in the pursuit and at nightfall the Royalist army had ceased to exist. Some of Rupert's foot regiments made their way to York, but the dispirited See also:garrison only held out for a fort-See also:night. Rupert rallied some six thousand of the men and escaped over the hills into See also:Lancashire, thence rejoining See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Charles in
attained its full stature, and is not See also:shed and replaced by its successor until after all the other See also:teeth, including the molars, are in See also:place and use. In others, as the thylacine, it is rudimentary, being shed or absorbed before any of the other teeth have cut the See also:- GUM (Fr. gomme, Lat. gommi, Gr. Kµµ1, possibly a Coptic word; distinguish " gum," the fleshy covering of the base of a tooth, in O. Eng. gbma, palate, cf. Ger. Gaumen, roof of the mouth; the ultimate origin is probably the root gha, to open wide, seen in
gum, and there-fore functionless. It may be added that there are some marsupials, such as the See also:wombat, See also:koala, marsupial See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
ant-eater and the dasyures,
the south. But the See also:Northern army, the See also:main See also:hope of the Royalist cause, was destroyed.
End of Article: MARSTON MOOR, BATTLE OF
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