Battle of Marston Moor
July 2, 1644
On a wet moor in Yorkshire, Parliamentarian and Scottish forces crushed the royalist army of Prince Rupert. Oliver Cromwell's disciplined cavalry broke the cavaliers with a charge that he compared, afterward, to a harvest by sickles. The north of England fell to parliament, and Cromwell's reputation as a military commander of rare ability was established beyond dispute.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.