To Walk in the Dark: Military Intelligence in the English Civil War, 1642-1646 0752460234, 9780752460239

During the bloody years of the First English Civil War, as the battles of Edgehill, Newbury and Naseby raged, another wa

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To Walk in the Dark: Military Intelligence in the English Civil War, 1642-1646
0752460234, 9780752460239

Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, wh

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Most histories of the Civil War explain victory and defeat in terms of the skill of commanders and their troops. Intelli

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With hindsight, the victory of Parliamentarian forces over the Royalists in the English Civil War may seem inevitable bu

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Between August 1642, when the Royal Standard of King Charles I was raised above Castle Hill at Nottingham, and September

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By studying the characteristics of those positioned along this fault line during the Civil War, the centrality of the wa

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A Military History of the English Civil War examines how the civil war was won, who fought for whom, and why it ended. W

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of thes

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Analyzes many puzzling aspects of the Civil War, from its mismatched sides to the absence of decisive outcomes for dozen

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