English Civil War
By: Carlene Hart and Lucas Graham
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Introduction
On July 12 of 1642 parliament voted to raise an army under the command of the Earl of Essex, for the preserving of the true religion, laws and overall peace of the kingdom.
On August 22 1642 King Charles I raised his royal standard at Nottingham. Civil war had openly been declared.
Battle of Edgehill - October 23 1642
Battle of Marston Moor - July 2 1644
Battle of Naesby - June 14 1645
The battle of naseby was the decisive battle of the first English civil war. What happened was the parliamentarian forces had been ordered to break off their siege of Oxford, the new model army marched forward with orders to attack the royalist. King Charles marched south to aid Oxford, his winter headquarters. At daventry King Charles discovered the parliamentarian forces lead by sir Thomas fairfax were closing on his army, and instead of retreating he chose to fight which would be a big factor in the outcome of the war. The royalist infantry would be defeated, the new model army had won a decisive victory. They retook Leicester, which they had lost to King Charles and the royalist earlier on. Naseby was the beginning of the end of the first English civil war King Charles had lost key resources that would be hard to replace.