page_title: Battle of Naseby
section_title: In fiction
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Naseby / In fiction
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Szene aus der historischen Schlacht von Naseby, hier: Reenactment nachgestellt auf dem "English Heritage's Festival of History 2005" zu Kelmarsh Hall. English: Scene from a historical re-enactment of the Battle of Naseby staged at English Heritage's Festival of History 2005 at Kelmarsh Hall. This image shows some of the Royalist forces. Note the mixture of pikemen and musketeers. Русский: Сцена исторической битвы, сдез Сражение при Несби (современная реконструкция 2005г.).
context_page_description: The Battle of Naseby was a decisive engagement of the First English Civil War, fought on 14 June 1645 between the main Royalist army of King Charles I and the Parliamentarian New Model Army, commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. It was fought near the village of Naseby in Northamptonshire.
  After the Royalists stormed the Parliamentarian town of Leicester on 31 May 1645, Fairfax was ordered to lift his siege of Oxford, the Royalist capital, and engage the King's main army. Eager to bring the Royalists to battle, Fairfax set off in pursuit of the Royalist army, which was heading to recover the north. The King, faced with retreating north with Fairfax close behind, or giving battle, decided to give battle, fearing a loss of morale if his army continued retreating. After hard fighting, the Parliamentarian army had effectively destroyed the Royalist force, which suffered 7,000 casualties out of 7,400 effectives.
  King Charles lost the bulk of his veteran infantry and officers; all of his artillery and stores; his personal baggage and many arms; ensuring the Royalists would never again field an army of comparable quality.
context_section_description: The battle features in the earlier part of Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novel Simon
  Ann Turnbull's historical novel Alice in Love and War illustrates the Parliamentarians' attack and slaughter of the unarmed female camp-followers.
  The battle serves as the historical background to a series of murders in the episode "The Dark Rider" of the TV series Midsomer Murders.
  Colonel Beverley, the father of the orphaned family in Captain Marryat's The Children of the New Forest, was killed at Naseby.
  The battle features in the final chapters of Peter Cottrell's historical fantasy novel Wyrdegrove.
  The battle is depicted in Catherine Darby's novel A Game of Falcons in which two neighbours from a village in Kent, fighting on opposite sides, encounter each other in the middle of the battle.
  The father of Alison, wife of the protagonist in Robert Neil's Burnaby Trilogy, was killed in Naseby.
  Lord Macaulay's poem "The Battle of Naseby".
  A fictional account of the battle is portrayed in the 1970 film Cromwell.
caption: Historical re-enactment
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