1. Introduction
  2. The Civil War
  3. Naseby Campaign
  4. The Approach
  5. Formal Phase
  6. The Retreat
  7. The Flight
  8. The Aftermath
  9. The Armies
  10. Furthur Reading

Deployments

Royalist: King Charles I and Prince Rupert, 10,150 men.

  • Horse (cavalry), 5,500 men under Prince Maurice and Sir Marmaduke Langdale
  • Foot (infantry), 4,600 men under Lord Astley

Parliamentarian: Sir Thomas Fairfax, 13,576 men.

  • Horse (cavalry), 5,400 men under Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton
  • Foot (infantry), 7,500 men under Philip Skippon
  • Dragoons (mounted infantry), 676 men under John Okey

(Note: most numbers are approximate)

Streeters Picture of the Battle of Naseby - 1647

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This picture of the armies at Naseby is by Robert Streeter, published in 1647. It cannot be treated like a modern map and has to be used with care. For example, the distance between Naseby village and the fight cannot be worked out from this drawing. Also, all foot regiments are shown exactly alike: blocks of pikemen flanked by musketeers. In reality regiments were of different sizes and some royalist regiments had no pikemen at all.

But this is a very valuable document, true in its own way. The order of battle is correct. On the left, at the top, are hedges, lined with dragoons; the way one trooper held many horses while the others fought can be seen. The wagons and carriages they had are lower down on the left.

Bernard De Gommes Plan of the Royalist deployment at Naseby 1645

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This plan by the Royalist engineer Bernard de Gomme, was probably drawn up in Oxford prior to the Naseby campaign. The plan shows the regimental deployments to be adopted in the event of battle.