The Jacobite Rebellion Of 1745: A Final-ditch Effort?
His forces defeated the Parliamentary army in the first battle of the war, at Edgehill. In 1644, an obscure East Anglian landowner, Oliver Cromwell came forward to lead the Parliamentary forces and the New Model Army of disciplined, specialist troops had been educated. Cromwell was to prove himself a superlative common and at Naseby in Northamptonshire in 1645, won a decisive victory more than the Royalists. Cromwell, Fairfax and Henry Ireton presented Charles with the Heads of Proposals by which…