Qualla: Battle of Newburn https://qualla.com/battle-of-newburn 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/y/b/battle-of-newburn-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Newburn https://qualla.com/battle-of-newburn Battle of Newburn: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-newburn/ Photo credit Matthew White Ridley, Public domain. Charles I lost his throne at a river crossing near Newburn six miles from Newcastle. He didn't know it yet on 28 August 1640. He still had nearly nine years to live, a civil war to fight and lose, and a scaffold at Whitehall waiting. But the battle that began that afternoon at low tide on the River Tyne would force him to recall the English Parliament he had ruled without for eleven years. That Long Parliament, once summoned, refused to be dismissed. Everything that followed - the Civil War, the regicide, the Republic - flowed from a Scottish artillery position on a hill north of the Tyne ford.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/b/battle-of-newburn-wp/gcyb-battle-of-newburn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Newburn: The Bishops' Wars https://qualla.com/battle-of-newburn/ Photo credit William Allan, Public domain. The trouble had started over prayer books. In 1638, after years of Charles imposing Anglican-style reforms on the Scottish kirk, signatories to the National Covenant vowed in Edinburgh to resist any further changes; bishops were expelled from the Scottish church in December. Char...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/b/battle-of-newburn-wp/gcyb-battle-of-newburn-the-bishops-wars.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Newburn: The Wrong Ground https://qualla.com/battle-of-newburn/ Photo credit Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0. Lord Conway, the English commander, had nowhere near enough men to defend Newcastle and meet Leslie's army in the field. Newcastle's strong defences sat north of the river; the south bank was weaker. Leslie chose to cross the Tyne at Newburn, a small village six miles upstream, w...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/b/battle-of-newburn-wp/gcyb-battle-of-newburn-the-wrong-ground.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Newburn: Low Tide https://qualla.com/battle-of-newburn/ Photo credit Matthew White Ridley, Public domain. The Scots had eight days of rations and needed Newcastle. Leslie, with his usual political instincts, sent a request across the river asking permission to cross peacefully and 'deliver a petition to the king.' Conway refused. Strafford then sent orders explicitly forbidding any c...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/b/battle-of-newburn-wp/gcyb-battle-of-newburn-low-tide.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Newburn: One Man Emerged with Credit https://qualla.com/battle-of-newburn/ Photo credit Edward Bower, Public domain. George Monck, then a junior officer, managed to extract the English artillery intact - one of the few competent actions of the day on the English side. Casualties on both sides were roughly equal at around 300 each, but the tactical reality was decisive: the Scots now controlled ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/b/battle-of-newburn-wp/gcyb-battle-of-newburn-one-man-emerged-with-credit.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Newburn: The Long Parliament https://qualla.com/battle-of-newburn/ Photo credit Matthew White Ridley, Public domain. Under the October 1640 Treaty of Ripon, Charles was forced to pay the Covenanters £850 per day and to allow them to occupy Northumberland and County Durham pending final terms. Funding this required taxes. Taxes required Parliament. Charles summoned what became the Long Parliamen...

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