Battle of Naseby
On 14 June 1645 the New Model Army, some 14,000 strong under Fairfax and Cromwell, met Charles I's roughly 9,000 Royalists near Naseby in Northamptonshire. Cromwell's cavalry broke the Royalist flanks and the infantry overwhelmed the centre. The King's captured correspondence, published soon after, showed he had been seeking Irish and continental Catholic troops — which destroyed what remained of his political position as thoroughly as the battle destroyed his army. Naseby is also the argument for professional soldiering over the amateur county levies that had fought the war until then.
- Year: 1645 CE
