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Battle of Naseby

The Battle of Naseby in Northamptonshire on 14 June 1645 was one of the most important battles of the English Civil Wars (1642-1651). The Royalists, led in person by King Charles, were soundly defeated by the Parliamentarians' numerically superior New Model Army. Naseby was not the end of the war, but the destruction of the king's infantry meant a Parliamentary victory was now inevitable.

The Civil War So Far

King Charles I of England (r. 1625-1649) had clashed with Parliament, particularly over money and religious reforms for years, and, finally, a civil war broke out in 1642. The 'Roundheads' (Parliamentarians) and 'Cavaliers' (Royalists) met in over 600 battles and sieges over the duration of the conflict. From the start, London, the southeast, and the Royal Navy were in the Roundheads' hands while the king controlled the western and northern parts of England.

1644 did not go well for the Royalists. A heavy defeat at the Battle of Marston Moor near York on 2 July 1644 was followed by the loss of York later the same month. The Parliamentarians now controlled the entire north of England except for a few isolated castles, and they had found themselves a gifted new cavalry commander, one Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658). The king still controlled the southwest, and the Roundheads lost the chance to inflict perhaps a final defeat on their opponents at the indecisive Second Battle of Newbury on 27 October 1644. The lack of unity amongst the Roundhead commanders led to a shake-up of Parliament's army and the creation of a new professional force with a new command structure. This was the New Model Army; its overall leader was Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612-1671) with Cromwell as his second-in-command.

In the second week of May 1645, Charles led an army to relieve the siege of Chester. Thomas Fairfax took the opportunity to lead the New Model Army to besiege Oxford, then the Royalist capital and now underdefended. At the end of May, the Royalist army besieged Leicester, hoping to divert Parliamentarian forces from Oxford to the south. Leicester was captured on 31 May, and Fairfax did indeed respond by marching his army northwards. King Charles then made the fatal error of dividing his forces. Two Royalist cavalry groups left, one for the southwest and the other for the north of England, leaving Fairfax with a vastly superior force if he could find the king before he, too, departed. The king did not mobilise in time, spurning a last chance on the evening of 13 June to leave Northamptonshire and fight another day. On Saturday 14 June, the two armies, each occupying a low ridge, faced each other across a wide stretch of relatively open field country just to the north of the village of Naseby with its useful landmark of a windmill.

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CHARLES I OF ENGLAND

CHARLES I OF ENGLAND

19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649

            Charles I was the king of England and Ireland. He became king in 1625, he believed that kings were ordained by God and did not have to answer to people. His rule became the cause of the English Civil War, which he lost.

            Charles I was convicted of treason and was beheaded in 1649. He died on a cold day, and wore an extra shirt, so the crowd wouldn’t believe that he trembled in fear. Charles I was executed on a platform in front of a crowd in Whitehall. The crowds dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood, which was believed at the time to perform miracles, some believing that his blood could cure the sick. Oliver Cromwell permitted Charles to have his head sewn back onto his body before his burial.

            After the monarchy restoration, his son Charles II showed little respect for Cromwell’s corpse. He had it dug up from its grave in Westminster Abbey and ordered for his head to be cut off and stuck on a pole on top of Westminster Hall. There is stayed for the next 20 years. His body was hanged from a gibbet at Tyburn.

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On This Day In History . 19 November 1600 . King Charles I was born . . ◼ Charles was born in Dunfermline Palace, Fife, on 19 November 1600, he was the second son of King James VI of Scotland (later King James I of England) and Anne of Denmark, . ◼ Charles I was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. . Portrait = Charles I with M. de St Antoine  Signed and dated 1633, by Sir Anthony van Dyck . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1600 #KingCharlesI #CharlesI #CharlesIofEngland #KingofEngland #EnglishMonarchy #RoyaltyinArt #Art #Portrait #History #BritishMonarchy #19November #D19Nov #historyfacts #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #Instahistory #instaroyals #Stuarts #theking #historyfacts #EnglishHistory #englishcivilwar ##GodSaveTheKing #Majestic #Thebritishmonarchy (at Dunfermline, Fife) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5EHQfTAg4V/?igshid=gqdj4rycbld

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Another day of culture in London. First, to the Charles I: King and Collector Exhibition. It’s so great to be going to an exhibition focusing around one of the fundamental progenitors of the Royal Collection, despite other less-than-favourable aspects linking to his life and character. Apparently, one of the best exhibitions in London, at the moment. We’ll have to see... #royalacademy #royalcollection #charlesiofengland #royalist #cavaliers #burlingtonhouse #art #baroque #anthonyvandyck #peterpaulrubens (at Royal Academy of Arts)

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On This Day In History . 29 June 1644 . Battle of Cropredy Bridge . . King Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil. . ◼ The Battle of Cropredy Bridge was a battle of the English Civil Wars, fought on 29 June 1644 between a Parliamentarian army under Sir William Waller & the Royalist army of King Charles I. . ◼ After a Parliamentarian attack on the Royalist rearguard was repulsed, Waller's army became demoralised & ineffective, allowing the King to retrieve the Royalists' fortunes after other defeats during the earlier part of the year. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1644 #d29jun #CivilWar #EnglishCivilWar #CropredyBridge #Royalists #Parliamentarians #Royalist #KingofEngland #CharlesI #CharlesIofEngland #KingCharlesI #HouseOfStuart #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #onthisday #instahistory #historyfacts #RoyalHistory (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzS5z92g_Zc/?igshid=1sckuxobzt18r

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On This Day In History - 19 November 1600 . King Charles I was born . . About Charles I; . . ◼ Charles I was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution 30 January 1649. . ◼ Charles was the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. . ◾ He became heir apparent to the English, Irish and Scottish thrones on the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1612. . ◾ An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to a Spanish Habsburg princess culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiations. Two years later, he married the Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France instead. . . Portrait = Charles I, King of England, by Christian Friedrich Zincke . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1600 #KingCharlesI #CharlesI #CharlesIofEngland #KingofEngland #EnglishMonarchy #RoyaltyinArt #Art #Portrait #History #BritishMonarchy #D19nov (at Dunfermline, Fife) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqYOzPAFyMr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1f1lr1jlhvbkw