Battle of Naseby

Timeline

1. 1645Northamptonshire · NorthamptonshireThe New Model Army pursued northward from the south; Charles I withdrew north from Leicester with some 7,500 men, intending to join Royalists from Monmouthshire. The two armies unexpectedly met in the hilly terrain around Naseby, and both hastily formed up.
2. 1645Naseby · NorthamptonshireThe Parliamentarian right was initially repulsed, but Cromwell led an Ironside flank attack that broke the Royalist left. Rupert's cavalry charged too fiercely and left the field; the Royalist infantry was surrounded and annihilated in the center, and the king was forced to withdraw from the battlefield.
3. 1645Line from Leicester to Northampton · EnglandParliamentarian cavalry pursued for dozens of miles, capturing large numbers of Royalist soldiers and baggage and seizing the king's private letters. The Royalist field army was thereby destroyed, and Charles I could no longer organize large-scale battles.