battles

• Battle of Edgehill – 23rd October 1642


  Inexperienced, ill-equipped troops on both sides and many men fled or fell out to loot enemy baggage and neither side could gain a decisive advantage. Weak cavalry P, strong cavalry R. R defeat cavalry and focus on that Maurice and Rupert decide to leave the battlefield for refreshment (beer). No cavalry support, should be an easy R win.
• outcome of the battle of edge hill 1642


  draw HOWEVER should've been an easy royalist win due to weak parliamentary cavalry however poor discipline for royalist army who left for refreshment
• Battle of Adwalton Moor - 30th June 1643


  Royalists - Earl of Newcastle (not trained to run an army). George Goring

  Parliamentarians - Lord Fairfax – support parliament in Yorkshire. Gain an army in Bradford. 

  Want to capture hull, join Charles in Oxford and then take London 
• outcome of battle of adwalton moor

  royalist victory

  500 parliamentarians killed, 1500 captured

  royalists lose 200 killed and 300 wounded
• Battle of Marston Moor

  Relives York by getting armies in York to come to a 'fake' attack of 2000 men and then the real troops sneak round the back. 

  Royalists began to camp out but are then slaughtered completely by the parliamentary charge.
• outcome of the battle of Marston moor

  The north is lost for the royalists – Devon in the west falls. 
• battle of naseby - 14 June 1645


  Rupert leaves the battlefield  

  1645 - new parliamentary army (new model army) regular paid wage , disciplined and trained, promoted on ability not status/family  –  Harrison becomes major than general, Cromwell becomes commander of horse. Redcoats (cheapest dye). 
• outcome of battle of naseby

  parliamentary victory
• when and where does Charles surrender

  Newark, Killerton Hall in 1646