Before the main engagement at Newburn Ford the Scots established musketeers in the houses and gardens on the north bank to cover their crossing; English dragoons and cavalry were driven from the south bank under this fire before the main Scottish crossing that became the Battle of Newburn; it triggered the Short and Long Parliaments.
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