The New Model Army

Question 1

What was new about the new model army?

Answer 1

Drill training ( frequently repeated manoeuvres)
Discipline was more strict

Question 2

What did parliament implement in 1645 to stop incompetence ? Again this falls under what was new

Answer 2

Self Denying ordinance which removed incompetent military leaders who gained their position due to status and where replaced by experience military commanders like THOMAS FAIRFAX

Question 3

How was the new model army paid ? Good or bad

Answer 3

Paid reasonable wages of 8d(pence) a day which encouraged better discipline but they where often paid in arrears

Question 4

What where three aspect of the new model army that made it a national army?

Answer 4

Separate local parliamentary armies were merged together to create a national army do 22,000 men
Funded by national rather than local tax
All infantry issues standard uniform for the first time

Question 5

How did the standing army change after 1660?

Answer 5

When Charles II came back to the throne he disbanded the new model army. He did however keep a small permanent army even in peacetime which had lasted even since