The Battle of Marston Moor mb-code IN001274 Plate 6 from Gleanings from

Plate 6 from Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall

fleeing the field and trying to avoid the sabres of Marshal Murat's horsemen

Alexander III

Woman weaving with straw on a hand loom

then alone until he was deposed in 1461

The Battle of Marston Moor mb-code IN001274 Plate 6 from Gleanings fromThe Battle of Marston Moor, 1644. The North lost to the king. The Parliamentarians under Thomas Fairfax defeated the Royalists at this battle in Yorkshire. Cromwell commanded the Parliamentarian cavalry that defeated the previously invincible Royalist cavalry of Prince Rupert. Marston Moor was a turning point in the English Civil War as it effectively lost the Royalists the north of England. A print from Fifteen Decisive Battles of British History,