Editing New Model Army (section)

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The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' dated the earliest use of the phrase "New Model Army" to the works of the Scottish historian [[Thomas Carlyle]] in 1845, and the exact term does not appear in 17th- or 18th-century documents. Records from February 1646 refer to the "New Modelled Army"—the idiom of the time being to refer to an army that was "new-modelled" rather than appending the word "army" to "new model".{{sfn|Simpson|2013}}