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Greatest Battles

The war rages on
Prior to Naseby, the war between the Get in line!
Royalists and the Parliamentarians Both sides took different approaches to battle
had been raging for three years. With formations. The Royal Army incorporated three
neither side ever quite taking complete lines of musketeers in the centre with cavalry on
control of the conflict, there needed the flanks. The Parliamentarians had two lines
to be an encounter that decided the rather than three with musketeers out at the front.
war before both sides ran out of steam.
Naseby would be that battle.

Cavaliers
Lacking the discipline of their adversaries,
the Royalist cavalry often attacked Lobster pots
individual targets rather than staying Nicknamed ‘lobster pots’ or ‘ironsides’,
in rank. Although they were fighting a the soldiers of the New Model Army
Parliamentarian army, about half of the were recognisable due to their metal
MPs fought for the king. In contrast to the helmets. They would traditionally cut
Roundheads, they would often wear fancy their hair very short and wear plain
clothes with long hair and beards. clothes as well as a cuirass breastplate.

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