ABSTRACT
George Goring’s excellent service at Marston Moor led to his promotion to general of all of King Charles’s cavalry. But his arrival in the king’s camp coincided with the removal of the popular horse commander Henry Wilmot, which nearly caused a mutiny among the cavalry officers. King Charles remained firm in his decision, and George Goring assumed his duties as the royalists cornered and forced the surrender of Essex’s infantry at Lostwithiel in Cornwall. After this success, as the king and his army marched back to Oxford, three Parliamentary armies attempted to block their path. The outnumbered royalists fought the enemy to a draw at Newbury on 27 October 1644, where Goring again acquitted himself well, charging and scattering Cromwell’s cavalry. The poor showing of the Parliamentary forces at Newbury was to result in the formation of the New Model Army, while George Goring’s good showing was to lead him to even greater authority in 1645.
