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Encyclopedia Britannica



IRONSIDES

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 838 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: INV-JED
IRONSIDES , a nickname given to one of
great
  bravery, strength or endurance, particularly as exhibited in a soldier. In
English
  history Ironside or Ironsides first appears as the name of Edmund II., king of the
English
 . In the
Great
  Rebellion it was first given by Prince
Rupert
  to Cromwell, after the
battle
  of Marston
Moor
  in 1644 (see S. R. Gardiner's History of the Great Civil War, 1893, vol. ii. p. 1, and Mercurius civicus, September 19-26, 1644, quoted there). From Cromwell it was transferred to the troopers of his cavalry, those "God-fearing men," raised and trained by him in an
iron
  discipline, who were the
main
 
instrument
  of the
parliamentary
  victories in the field. This (see S. R. Gardiner, op. cit. iv. 179) was first given at the raising of the siege of Pontefract 1648, but did not become general till later.


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