✦ History

Part of First English Civil War

Battle of Marston Moor

July 2, 1644 · Near Long Marston, Yorkshire, England

Result Parliamentarian-Scottish victory

Parliamentarian and Scottish Covenanter armies under Fairfax, Leven and Manchester defeated Prince Rupert's Royalists near York.

On the map Contemporaries

Parliamentarians (Roundheads)

Royalists (Cavaliers)

Parliamentarians (Roundheads)
Covenanters
Royalists (Cavaliers)
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester military commander Oliver Cromwell military commander Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven military commander Thomas Fairfax military commander Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron military commander
Prince Rupert of the Rhine military commander William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle military commander