'The furie of the ordnance' : artillery in the English civil wars / Stephen Bull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bull, Stephen, 1960-

Series:

Armour and weapons ; v. 2.

Armour and weapons ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artillery--England--History--17th century.

Artillery.

Military art and science--England--History--17th century.

Military art and science.

History.

Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649.

Great Britain.

England.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2008.

Contents:

1 Of Guns and Gunners 1

Firing: 'the Fury of the Ordnance' 16

2 'England's Vulcan': Artillery Supply under the Early Stuarts 38

3 A Scramble for Arms: The War of Ordnance Logistics 54

Supplying the long war 63

4 Artillery Fortifications 81

5 Artillery and Sieges 100

Basing: sapper, siege gun and mortar in action 113

Pontefract Castle: the last Royalist stronghold 118

Gloucester: Parliament stronghold 120

Lathom: 'Northern Court' 125

Sea power and sieges 130

6 Battle 137

Examples of battle: Edgehill 150

Marston Moor 154

I Ordnance types 1634-1665 173

II Shot finds 175

III The Parliamentarian artillery train of 1642 178

IV The establishment of the King's 'Trayne of Artillery', June 1643 181

V Equipment and personnel dispatched from Oxford, May 1643 183

VI Ordnance captures at Bristol 185

VII Artillery and officers of the New Model Army 186

VIII The ideal artillery train 188

IX The Masters and Officers of the Ordnance c. 1610-1660 189

X Typical firing sequence 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-243) and index.

ISBN:

9781843834038

1843834030

OCLC:

209770543