Major conflict1644

Battle of Marston Moor

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Marston Moor · near York · Yorkshire

Estimated casualties

4.0K – 6.0Kestimated dead

Royalist ~4,000 killed plus ~1,500 captured; Parliamentarian-Scots ~300-1,500 killed. Combined dead roughly 4,000-6,000.

SOURCEWikipedia / Clodfelter

Fought 2 July 1644 west of York, the combined Parliamentarian and Scottish Covenanter armies under Fairfax, Manchester and Leven, with Cromwell's cavalry, crushed the Royalists under Prince Rupert, costing the King control of northern England.

Belligerents2

Parliamentarians and Scottish Covenanters
Royalists

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Marston Moor
Battlefields Trust
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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