This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...Devon and Somerset, defeat Sir William Waller on Lansdown-hill, near Bath, July 5; death of the Cornish leaders, Greenvil and Hop-ton. The Cornish horse defeat Waller a second time on Roundway Down, in Wiltshire (their foot being cooped up in Devizes). July 13, 1643. c Bristol surrenders to Prince Rupert. July ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...Devon and Somerset, defeat Sir William Waller on Lansdown-hill, near Bath, July 5; death of the Cornish leaders, Greenvil and Hop-ton. The Cornish horse defeat Waller a second time on Roundway Down, in Wiltshire (their foot being cooped up in Devizes). July 13, 1643. c Bristol surrenders to Prince Rupert. July 27. The news falls on Parliament " like a sentence of death." 3. The end of the Western Campaign and taking of the Covenant. Pp. 533, 534-a The King master of the West. Gloucester alone between his western and northern armies. The King lays siege to Gloucester; obliged to raise the siege by the stout resistance of the "godly" citizens and the approach of Essex. August 10--September 6,1643. b Essex returns towards London, cut off by the King at Newbury. Indecisive battle and death of Lord Falkland. September 20,1643. c Pym's negotiations with Scotland to obtain aid, sanctioned by the English, mainly owing to the King's intrigues with the Irish rebels. The Covenant signed in Scotland and by the English Commons in S. Margaret's Church at Westminster. September 25,1643. d Death of Pym just before the hour of triumph. December, 1643. 4. Marston Moor and the Campaigns in Cornwall and Scotland. Pp. 534--536. a Three Parliamentary armies sent into the field. I That of Essex, to watch the movements of the King at Oxford. 2 That of Waller, to oppose Prince Maurice in Dorset and Devon. 3 That of Manchester and Cromwell, to join Sir T. Fairfax and the Scots in Yorkshire. b The King's Irish auxiliaries cut to pieces by Waller in the south, and by Fairfax in Cheshire. January 25,1644. c Oxford besieged by Essex and Waller, April. York besieged by Manchester and Fairfax. d Prince Rupert relieves York and attacks Manchester, Fairfax and the Scots, on...
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