Qualla: Battle of Marston Moor https://qualla.com/battle-of-marston-moor en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/4/battle-of-marston-moor-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Marston Moor https://qualla.com/battle-of-marston-moor Battle of Marston Moor: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-marston-moor/ Photo credit DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0. Prince Rupert thought the fighting was done for the day. By 5:00 p.m. on 2 July 1644, both armies had been facing each other across a drainage ditch on Marston Moor for hours, exchanging cannon fire but nothing more. The Royalist contingent from York had only just arrived. Their commander, Lord Eythin, criticized Rupert's dispositions but then declared it too late to do anything about them. The Royalists began to settle in for the night. Then, around 7:30 in the evening, 27,000 Parliamentarian and Scottish Covenanter troops attacked.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/x/4/battle-of-marston-moor-wp/gcx4-battle-of-marston-moor-cromwells-hour.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Marston Moor: The Last Stand of the Whitecoats https://qualla.com/battle-of-marston-moor/ Photo credit Anthony van Dyck, Public domain. As darkness gathered under a rising full moon, the Royalist center held on longer than anyone expected. Lord Goring's victorious cavalry on the Royalist left had scattered in pursuit or stopped to loot the allied baggage train, leaving the infantry exposed. Six Covenanter regimen...

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