Crown, Covenant and Cromwell : The Civil Wars in Scotland, 1639-1651 / Stuart Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, Stuart, 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, England : Frontline Books, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, [2012]

Summary:

Crown, Covenant and Cromwell is a groundbreaking military history of the Great Civil War or rather the last Anglo-Scottish War as it was fought in Scotland and by Scottish armies in England between 1639 and 1651. While the politics of the time are necessarily touched upon, it is above all the story of those armies and the men who marched in them under generals such as Alexander Leslie, the illiterate soldier of fortune who became Earl of Leven, James Graham, Marquis of Montrose and of course Oliver Cromwell, the fenland farmer and Lord Protector of England.Historians sometimes seem to regard b

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Scotland, the Scots and the Art of War; Chapter 2 - Treason Never Doth Prosper; Chapter 3 - Blue Bonnets Over the Border; Chapter 4 - With Brode Swordis but Mercy or Remeid; Chapter 5 - Bitter Winter; Chapter 6 - We Gat Fechtin' Oor Fill; Chapter 7 - High Noon; Chapter 8 - An End and a New Beginning; Chapter 9 - The King in the North; Chapter 10 - Curs'd Dunbar; Chapter 11 - The Last Hurrah; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781783464739

1783464739

9781783469390

1783469390

OCLC:

867929195