THE STORY

Royalist troops under the Marquess of Newcastle and Prince Rupert vs. an allied army of Parliamentary and Scottish troops led by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Lord Manchester, The Civil War was going badly for Royalist forces in the north of England. The Marquess of Newcastle was forced to fall back on the fortified city of York, where he was besieged by Parliamentary armies under Sir Thomas Fairfax. Prince Rupert led a relief force of perhaps 7000 cavalry and as many footsoldiers north to the relief of the city. Fairfax broke off the siege and marched his men south to prevent Rupert from reaching the approaches to York. The ever-daring Rupert surprised the Parliamentary generals by marching around their position and reaching the city anyway.

The Battle
Never one to pull back from a fight, Rupert now ordered his tired men out from York to surprise the enemy. They met a numerically superior force numbering perhaps 27,000 men. By the time the armies were in position it was late in the day, and Rupert, convinced that his foe would not attack until the morning, left the field in search of his supper. Lord Newcastle, perhaps more reprehensibly, retired to his coach for a quiet smoke. The Parliamentary army surprised the royalist totally by an attack which must have begun just as dusk was falling at 7pm. The fierce fighting lasted for several hours, eerily illuminated by a harvest moon. The royalist cavalry under the returned Rupert was ousted after fierce fighting, but it was the infantry that won the day (or night, in this case).

The Result
The Royalists lost as many as 3000 men, plus their artillery train. York was forced to surrender to Parliament and the north of England was effectively lost to the king. Prince Rupert lost his glowing reputation of invincibility in battle, but Marston Moor made the reputation of another man; Oliver Cromwell made a name for himself for his role in defeating the Royalist cavalry.

SOURCE OF INFORMATION http://www.britainexpress.com/History/battles/marston-moor.htm

THE INVESTIGATION

2nd July 2006

We arrived at the location and parked near the memorial stone, this type of investigation is what we class as a grade 2 investigation, an observation invest.

There have been many reports of Ghosts been seen here, Probably Residual by the descriptions we have been given, whilst we were there we set up three nightvision camcorders and two tape recorders.

Despite all the equipment we have been unable to get anything on any tapes, other than natural sounds as we were in the open.

During the night we had heard what sounded like groans and battle cries, again due to being out in the open and with natural sounds of nature and the wind howling these cannot be taken for granted as battle cries.

We did not see any figures of men or horses so we cannot back up anyones claims of seeing anything.

Throughout the night our medium had sensed only from the residual the battle and the nerves from the men who fought there, she had felt that some may have been seen by people but again feels these also would be from the residual.

Overall our investigation failed to help in any claims of ghost sightings here.

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