Military Writers; Hopeless Condition of the English Militia 194 Collapse of the Military System at the Scotch Rebellion of 1639 194 The Collapse repeated in 1640 195 Resistance to enforcement of the Military Requirements of the King 196 Rout of the English at Newburn 198 The Scots Army subsidised by the Parliament 198 Widening of the Breach between King and Parliament 198 The Futile Struggle of both Parties for the Militia 198 Outbreak of the Civil War 199 The Rival Armies; Prince Rupert 199 Oliver Cromwell; Rupert's Shock Action at Edgehill 200 Cromwell sees the Remedy for ensuring Victory over the Royalists 200 Helplessness of the Parliament in the Early Stages of the War 201 Superiority of the Royalist Cavalry 201 The King's Success in the Campaign of 1643 202 It is checked by Cromwell 203 Fairfax and Cromwell at Winceby Fight 204 Parliament votes a Regular Army 204 The Scots cross the Tweed; the Committee of both Kingdoms 205 Marston Moor 205 Sir William Waller urges the Formation of a Permanent Army 207 Collapse of the Existing System of the Parliamentary Army 208 The New Model Army voted 208 BOOK III CHAPTER I Fairfax appointed to Command the New Model 211 Philip Skippon his Chief Officer 212 The Making of the Army; Red Coats 213 The Organisation of the Army; Infantry and Cavalry 214 Shock Action 215 The Dragoons; the Artillery 217 The Engineers 219 Organisation of the War Department 219 List of the Army 220 The Ruling Committee's Plan of Campaign 222 It is upset by Montrose's Victory at Auldearn 223 Cromwell appointed Lieutenant-General 223 Battle of Naseby 224 The New Model's victorious Campaign in the West 227 Charles's Last Hope destroyed at Philiphaugh 228 CHAPTER II