In the weeks before Dunbar Cromwell probed the Scottish lines repeatedly and was repulsed; at Musselburgh his cavalry was turned back by Leslie well-positioned Scots; Cromwell retreated toward Dunbar with his sick army and supply line threatened — until Leslie was persuaded to attack downhill and disaster followed.
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