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Marston Moor   /mˈɑrstən mʊr/   Listen
Marston Moor

noun
1.
A former moor in northern England.
2.
A battle in 1644 in which the Parliamentarians under the earl of Manchester defeated the Royalists under Prince Rupert.  Synonym: battle of Marston Moor.





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... gathered persistently after service on the village green for their dancing, and their leaping, and their archery. Long habit cannot be transformed in a day by an Edict of Council, and amidst army manifestoes and battles of Marston Moor, and a king dethroned and imprisoned, old English life in Bedfordshire preserved its familiar features. These Sunday sports had been a special delight to Bunyan, and it is to them which he refers in the following passage, when speaking of his persistent wickedness. On his marriage he became ...
— Bunyan • James Anthony Froude


Words linked to "Marston Moor" :   English Civil War, pitched battle, England, moor, moorland


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