"God made them as stubble to our swords," reported Cromwell after the capture of York.
Though the Duke of Newcastle's Whitecoats grumbled about their pay just before this battle, "they brought their winding-sheets about them into the field" and died rather than  surrender to Leslie's Scottish horse. With dusk falling, the Earl of Leven ordered an advance, surprising the defenders. On the right flank, Thomas Fairfax's cavalry was routed, but the Ironsides on the left defeated Prince Rupert's Royalist horse for the first time.  "God made them as stubble to our swords," reported Cromwell after the capture of York. FTP, name this July 2, 1644 battle, the first great victory for Parliament in the English Civil War.
Though the Duke of Newcastle's Whitecoats grumbled about their pay just before this battle, "they brought their winding-sheets about them into the field" and died rather than  surrender to Leslie's Scottish horse.
Marston Moor