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Ironside (cavalry)
The Ironsides were troopers in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by English political leader Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century, during the English Civil War. The name came from "Old Ironsides", one of Cromwell's nicknames. A contemporary Parliamentarian newspaper asserted that it was the Royalist Prince Rupert who had given Cromwell the nickname after Rupert's defeat at Marston Moor in July 1644: ''Munday we had intelligence that Lieutenant-Gen. Cromwell alias Ironside (for that title was given him by P. Rupert after his defeate neere York) (at Marston Moor ) was about Redding (sic) with 2500 horse marching towards Sir William Waller."'' 〔''Mercurius Civicus'', 16-26 Sept., 1644 in (''Notes and queries'' 11th series. Vol. XL. Jan.- Jun., 1915; p. 181. )〕
==The model regiment==
Cromwell first mustered a troop of cavalry (then referred to as "horse") at Huntingdon in Huntingdonshire, on 29 August 1642, early in the Civil War. John Desborough was quartermaster. The troop was late in being organised, and arrived too late to participate in the Battle of Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the war. Cromwell however did witness the defeat of the Parliamentarian horse at the battle and wrote to fellow Parliamentarian leader John Hampden,
Your troopers are most of them old decayed servingmen and tapsters; and their (Royalists''' ) troopers are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality; do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows (ours'' ) will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
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