Victory over the royalists in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dunbar_(1650)" id="mwUQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Dunbar (1650)">Battle of Dunbar</a> opens the way to Edinburgh for the New Model Army in the Third English Civil War.<sup about="#mwt25" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_3#cite_note-3" id="mwUg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUw">[3]</span></a></sup>
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