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Naseby

noun

A village in western Northamptonshire.

A battle in 1645 that settled the outcome of the first English Civil War as the Parliamentarians won a major victory over the Royalists. Synonym: Battle of Naseby.

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"Naseby" Quotes from Famous Books

... a very poor affair if compared with the story of Charles I. and the Parliament. If Macaulay had painted for us the Council Chamber of Cromwell as he has painted the Whitehall of Charles II.; if he had described the battle of Naseby as well as he has pictured the fight of Sedgemoor; if he had narrated the campaigns of Marlborough as brilliantly as he has told that which ended at the Boyne—how ...

— Studies in Early Victorian Literature • Frederic Harrison

... Conway that five hundred of his best men must dispute the Naseby road to the east. And let Mitchell ...

— Oliver Cromwell • John Drinkwater

... near. You keep your eyes on those big houses in the East Gate. As for me, look at that back and breast and good broad-sword there. Damn me if I don't rub 'em up and come and have a ding with 'em at these rebels. On Naseby Field they were, Captain, long before your time and mine, but they did good work against these same bloody Stuarts. Crack t'other bottle, there's a good fellow. I'm dry with talking and wet with fishing, ...

— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough

... the statesman, the maker of covenants with Scotch armies, the creator of sinews of war for the battles of Marston Moor and Naseby, the organizer of a conquering navy, the man who dared withstand his old friend Cromwell in the day of the great soldier's power, that concerns us in this chapter; it is Vane, the religious Independent, the exponent of inward religion; the man whom ...

— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones

... them from his house. As in Zululand, any building made a respectable fort, when cannon- balls had so little penetrative power, or when artillery was not at the front. Oxford was surrendered, with other places of arms, after Naseby, ...

— Oxford • Andrew Lang

... countries, and their poets, orators, and statesmen, and their generals, belong to our history as well as theirs. I will never disavow Henry V on the plains of Agincourt; never Oliver Cromwell on the fields of Marston Moor and Naseby; never Sarsfield on the banks of the Boyne. The glories and honors of Sir Colin Campbell are the glories of the British race, and the races of Great Britain and Ireland, from whom we ...

— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis

Words linked to "Naseby" : town, English Civil War, England, pitched battle, Northamptonshire