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Jon Day Uses Fresh Documentary Research And Landscape Evidence To Explain The Political Background, The Royalist Failure To Capture Gloucester And The Dynamic Encounter Battle At Newbury. He Weaves Together Official Correspondence, Vivid First-hand Accounts Of The Fighting, Intelligence Reports And Logistic Records, Plus Previously Unused Early Maps, To Rewrite The History Of The Campaign. He Also Suggests A New Layout For The Newbury Battlefield And Reassesses The Leaders On Both Sides--dust Jacket. Gallant Men Lay On The Ground Like Rotting Sheep' -- 'the Next Design' -- 'a Civil, Courteous And Religious People' -- 'no Good News' -- 'insolent And Seditious Answers' -- 'this Business May Draw Into Greater Length Than Was Imagined' -- 'i Am Tomorrow, God Willing, Beginning My March' -- 'we Shall Do Little Good Upon This Town' -- 'the Fools Were Cozened' -- 'no Orders Were Given Out For The Manner Of Our Fighting' -- 'exceeding Long And Quick Marches' -- 'a Hill Called Big's-hill, Near To Newbury' -- 'let Us Fall Upon Them' -- 'our Foot Played The Jades' -- 'they Knocked Out Their Brains With The Butt-ends Of Their Muskets' -- 'a Stop To The Career Of The King's Good Success'. Jon D

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Author

Day, Jon

Publisher

Pen and Sword Books; Pen & Sword Military

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844155910

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Military History, Humanities