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4 unusual facts about battle of Marston Moor


Battle of Marston Moor

He had at least 2,000 horse from Yorkshire and Lancashire, deployed in nine divisions, and 600 musketeers, with three regiments of Scots horse, numbering about 1,000 and commanded by the Earl of Eglinton, to his rear.

One isolated Scottish brigade which had been at the right of their front line and consisted of the regiments of the Earl of Crawford-Lindsay and Viscount Maitland stood firm against Lucas, who launched three charges against them.

Although they partially retrieved their fortunes with victories later in the year in the south of England, the loss of the North was to prove a fatal handicap the next year, when they tried unsuccessfully to link up with the Scottish Royalists under Montrose.

Vincent Dillon

According to O'Reilly, he was taken prisoner by the rebels after the "Battle of York", possibly referring to the Battle of Marston Moor.


John Rushworth

After the outbreak of the Civil War, Rushworth as an "embedded journalist" followed the battles of Edge Hill (1642), Newbury (1643-1644), Marston Moor (1644) and Naseby (1645).

Simeon Ashe

In John Vicars's Parliamentary Chronicle there is a letter of his, describing the proceedings of the Earl of Manchester in reducing several garrisons after the battle of Marston Moor.


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