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The Probert Encyclopaedia of Warfare

BATTLE OF NASEBY

The Battle of Naseby took place on the 14th of June 1645 about a mile north of the village of Naseby in Northamptonshire, and was a decisive victory for the Parliamentary forces during the English Civil War. The battle took place after Charles I's storming and sacking of Leicester. Led by Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, the New Model Army outnumbered the Cavalier force by about one-third. Prince Rupert's cavalry squandered an early advantage, as at Edgehill, and after a bitter struggle lasting about three hours, the Roundhead forces out numbered the Royalists 2 to 1 and were better led, and naturally proved superior, and the Cavaliers suffered extremely heavy losses.

The Parliamentary forces lost about 150 soldiers, the Royalists about 700 soldiers. Some soldiers of the Parliamentary force also ransacked the Royalist mobile brothel and massacred over 100 of the prostitutes there, and slashed the faces of many more. The Parliamentary forces also captured the king's private cabinet which contained damning letters and plans to import foreign mercenaries and Irish papists
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