The Restoration of 1660 was only enabled with the support of the same New Model Army that had defeated Charles I at Naseby in 1645 and Charles II at Worcester in 1651.  In October 2000, at a week long event at the Tower of London,  the Fairfax Battalia represented the final days of the New Model Army before it was disbanded and the surviving regiments reformed as new Royal Guards. These were the soldiers of General Monck who had marched from Scotland.  The soldiers were still dressed and equipped as the army of the Commonwealth, but their new Royalist  officers had taken up the latest continental fashions.

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The Officer	The Ensign	The Drummer
Laying Down of Arms	The New Army	End of the NMA

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