poem
War songs of Britain, selected by Harold E. Butler
Harold Edgeworth Butler (1878–), 1909
Named on the page for Battle of Naseby.
machine-read Machine-read (OCR) from a scanned book at the Internet Archive: expect misread words and names. The scan itself is at the library.
draft Matched to the battle automatically; not yet reviewed.
Passages that name the battle; the whole collection is at Internet Archive.
14 June 1645
Battle of Naseby
THE BATTLE OF NASEBY
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THE BATTLE OF NASEBY
It was about the noon of a glorious day of June,
That we saw their banners dance and their cui
rasses shine,
And the Man of Blood was there, with his long
THE BATTLE OF NASEBY
128
THE BATTLE OF NASEBY
And he — he turns, he flies ; shame on those cruel
WAR SONGS OF BRITAIN
The real battle of the Haughs of Cromdale took place in 1690
when Mackay defeated the Jacobite forces.THE BATTLE OF NASEBY. On June 14, 1645, the Royalist,
army, commanded by the King in person, was crushed at Naseby
in Northamptonshire by the Parliamentarians under Fairfax. This
battle decided the fate of the Royalist cause in England.236
Public domain. Text from Internet Archive.