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New Model Army

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New Model Army

(1645) Army that won the English Civil Wars for Parliament. It was formed to provide a well-trained force drawn from all parts of England instead of the limited local militias. The new army also replaced the private armies raised by individual generals that lacked a unified command. Under Baron Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, the New Model Army won the Battle of Naseby and effectively ended the first phase of the Civil Wars.



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In his chapter on the Agitators in the New Model Army during the summer and fall of 1647 leading to the Putney Debates, Holstun is on firmer ground.
Beyond that limited achievement, Maj Bondy's paper offers nothing but a recipe for a narrow, introspective Army riven by a factionalism that has merely had its focus shifted from its present level of traditional regiments and corps to their proposed successors of the new model army.
Disheveled and unconscious, he is discovered by the gentle, charismatic Christopher Ferris of Parliament's New Model Army.
 
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