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NASEBY , a See also:village of See also:Northamptonshire, See also:England, 7 M. S.S.W. of See also:Market Harborough, famous as the See also:scene of the See also:battle of See also:June 14, 1645, which decided the issue of the first See also:Civil See also:War (see See also:GREAT See also:REBELLION). The See also:army of 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 See also:Charles I. was less than 10,000 strong, while the " New See also:Model " army of the See also:parliament, commanded by 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 See also:Fairfax, numbered some 13,000, yet it was not without considerable hopes of victory that the Royalists See also:drew up for battle, for although See also:Lieutenant-See also:General See also:Cromwell had made the New Model See also:cavalry formidable indeed, the Royalist See also:foot had become professionalized in several years of war, whereas the Parliamentarian foot was newly organized, and in See also:part at least but See also:half-trained. Fairfax and Cromwell, however, were still more confident, and with better See also:reason. The battlefield lies between Naseby and Sibbertoft (3 M. N. of Naseby) and is an undulating See also:ridge which, near the centre of England, forms the " See also:divide " between the See also:Avon and the Welland See also:rivers. Across this ridge the two armies were See also:drawn up, the New Model facing See also:north and the king's army See also:south, the See also:horse on the flanks and the foot in the centre in each army.
At the first See also:shock the Royal foot asserted its superiority over the opposing See also:infantry, four out of five regiments in the first See also:line were broken, and See also:Skippon, the See also:major-general of the foot, was wounded. But Fairfax's See also:regiment held its ground, until the second line of infantry advanced and re-established the front. Meantime the Royalist right wing of horse, led by See also:Prince See also:Rupert, had completely routed the horse of See also:Colonel See also:Ireton which opposed them. But the victors as usual indulged in a disorderly pursuit, and attempted to overpower the baggage guard of the enemy near Naseby village. Their incoherent attack was repulsed, and when Rupert, gathering as many of his men as he could, returned to the battlefield, the decisive stroke had been delivered by Cromwell and the right wing of See also:Parliamentary horse. In front of him, in somewhat broken ground, was Sir Marmaduke Langdale's cavalry, which the lieutenant-general with his own well-trained regiments scattered after a See also:short, fierce encounter. Cromwell's " godly " troopers did not scatter in pursuit. A few squadrons were ordered to keep the fugitives on the run, and with the See also:rest, and such of Ireton's broken troops as he could gather, Cromwell attacked the Royalist centre in See also:rear while Fairfax and his foot pressed it in front. Gradually the Royalist infantry, inferior in See also:numbers, was disintegrated into small See also:groups, which surrendered one after the other. But one See also:brigade, called
the " Bluecoats," held out to the last, and was finally broken by a combined See also:charge of Fairfax's regiment of foot, led by Cromwell, and the general's See also:personal escort, led by Fairfax himself, who captured a See also:colour with his own See also:hand. The remnant of the king's army, re-formed by Rupert, stood inactive and irresolute while its infantry was being destroyed and then fled. The spoils included See also:loo See also:standards and See also:colours and the king's private papers. But more important than trophies was the See also:practical annihilation of the last 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 army of which the king disposed. Half the Royalists were captured, and about r000 See also:fell, in the battle and the pursuit which followed it. In addition all the See also:artillery and the, muskets (to the number of 8000) and See also:ammunition without which the king could scarcely create a new army, fell into the hands of the victors.
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