Battle of Langport and four infantry regiments from their New Model Army, to relieve Taunton. They raised the siege on 11 May 1645, but were themselves besieged by Goring's returning army (although there was no longer any danger of the Royalists storming the town). On 14 June 1645, the main body of the New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax, with Oliver Cromwell as Lieutenant General of Horse, won the decisive Battle of Naseby, destroying Charles's main army. After the Royalist garrison of Leicester surrendered four days later, the New Model Army was free to march to the relief of Taunton. The army
Francis Windebank (Royalist soldier) Francis Windebank (Royalist soldier) Francis Windebank (died 1645) supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. He was court-martialed and shot for failing to defend Bletchingdon Park, near Oxford. Francis was the second son of Sir Francis Windebank, (later Secretary of State to King Charles I). He, was admitted a student of Lincoln's Inn on 19 March 1633. Windebank later entered the service of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford and was made Usher of the Chamber to Charles, Prince of Wales. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Windebank supported the Royalist cause, and became a colonel in