The British nation a history / by George MWrong . .loor,-^ near Bradford. But these successes were transient; there^ were minor victories on the other side, and when theyT^-war had gone on about two years the tide had slowlyS turned against Charles. Those opposed to tiie king had. .^ N^pKiNcK RfPEitT, Sun <if , V ClIAHLEsi 1 llJS2^. <^ ^^Vi^ISTEK ^ THE STUART MONARCHY 309 begun to find their natural leaders. The Parliament hadbeen anxious to put men of rank in the front, and theEarl of Essex, son of the spoiled favourite whom Eliza-beth sent to the block in 1601, comm
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . .loor,-^ near Bradford. But these successes were transient; there^ were minor victories on the other side, and when theyT^-war had gone on about two years the tide had slowlyS turned against Charles. Those opposed to tiie king had. .^ N^pKiNcK RfPEitT, Sun <if , V ClIAHLEsi 1 llJS2^. <^ ^^Vi^ISTEK ^ THE STUART MONARCHY 309 begun to find their natural leaders. The Parliament hadbeen anxious to put men of rank in the front, and theEarl of Essex, son of the spoiled favourite whom Eliza-beth sent to the block in 1601, commanded its armiesuntil his place was taken by Sir Thomas Fairfax in lacked decision, while Fairfax, though able, waswithout some of the qualities of a leader, and the fame ofboth is overshadowed by that of Oliver Cromwell. Withinstinctive military genius Cromwell organized a cavalryregiment fired Avith the Puritan spirit, and on July 2,1644, after a desperate struggle, he and the Scot-tish leader David Leslie, against whom, six years later,he was to pit his strength at Dunbar, had the chiefshare in completely overwhelming the royalists at Mar-ston Moor. The first reverses on the Parliamentary side promotedefficiency in the end, for they drew attention to the faul
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