Battle of Marston Moor - 1644

Battle of Marston Moor - 1644

Parliamentarians and Scottish Covenanters  Earl of LevenEarl of Manchester, Lord Fairfax

Royalists  Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Marquess of Newcastle

Result: Parliamentarian and Scottish Covenanter victory

Location: near Long Marston

The Battle of Marston Moor was fought on 2 July 1644, during the First English Civil War of 1642 and 1646. The combined forces of the English Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester and the Scottish Covenanters under the Earl of Leven defeated the Royalists commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the Marquess of Newcastle. During the summer of 1644, the Covenanters and Parliamentarians had been besieging York, which was defended by the Marquess of Newcastle. Prince Rupert had gathered an army which marched through the northwest of England, gathering reinforcements and fresh recruits on the way, and across the Pennines to relieve the city. The convergence of these forces made the ensuing battle the largest of the Civil Wars.