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The New Model Army or New Modelled Army was a standing army formed in 1645 by the Parliamentarians during the First English Civil War, then disbanded after the Stuart Restoration in 1660. It differed from other armies employed in the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms in that members were liable for service anywhere in the country, rather ...
Independents opposed any state church, and although smaller in number, included Cromwell, as well as much of the New Model Army. [2] Having established control of Scotland in the 1639 to 1640 Bishops Wars, the Covenanters viewed the 1643 Solemn League and Covenant with Parliament as a way to preserve it, by preventing Royalist victory in England.
The petition of the three colonels or The Humble Petition of Several Colonels of the Army [1] was a document of the English Interregnum.Written by the Republican agitator John Wildman [2] in the name of John Okey, Thomas Saunders, and Matthew Alured—three colonels in the New Model Army—it criticised Oliver Cromwell and the Protectorate, called for the institution of the Council of Officers ...
The New Model Army, radicalised by Parliament's failure to pay the wages it was owed, petitioned against these changes, but the Commons declared the petition unlawful. In May 1647 Cromwell was sent to the army's headquarters in Saffron Walden to negotiate with them, but failed to agree. [35]
Cromwell succeeded to his office as lord general, becoming commander-in-chief of the New Model Army. He received his commission on 28 June, and set out for Scotland the same day, [26] crossing the Tweed at the head of 16,000 men on 22 July. [27] [28]
Plaque commemorating three Levellers executed by Oliver Cromwell in Burford. The Banbury mutiny was a mutiny by soldiers in the English New Model Army.The mutineers did not achieve all of their aims and some of the leaders were executed shortly afterwards on 17 May 1649.
Cromwell seized the opportunity, and the New Model Army inflicted a crushing defeat on the Scots at the subsequent Battle of Dunbar on 3 September. Leslie's army, which had strong ideological ties to the radical Kirk Party , was destroyed, losing over 14,000 men killed, wounded and taken prisoner.
The Good Old Cause was the name given, retrospectively, by the soldiers of the New Model Army, to the complex of reasons that motivated their fight on behalf of the Parliament of England. Their struggle was against King Charles I and the Royalists during the English Civil War; they continued to support the English Commonwealth between 1649 and ...