Author: Leslie Peter WenhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Great and Close Siege of York, 1644
Author: Leslie Peter WenhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Great Siege of Newcastle 1644
Author: Rosie SerdivillePublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750953497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In the autumn of 1644 was fought one of the most sustained and desperate sieges of the First Civil War when Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven finally stormed Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the King's greatest bastion in the north-east and the key to his power there. The city had been resolutely defended throughout the year by the Marquis of Newcastle, who had defied both the Covenanters and northern Parliamentarians. Newcastle had held sway in the north-east since the outbreak of the war in 1642. He had defeated the Fairfaxes at Adwalton Moor and secured the City of Newcastle as the major coal exporter and port of entry for vital Royalist munitions and supply. Without this the north was lost. If anything, Newcastle was more important, in strategic terms, than York and it was the city's fall in October which marked the final demise of Royalist domination of the north. The book tells the story of the people who fought there, what motivated them and who led them there. It is also an account of what happened on the day, a minute-by-minute chronicle of Newcastle's bloodiest battle. The account draws heavily on contemporary source material, some of which has not received a full airing until now.
The Siege of York and Battle of Marston Moor, 1644
Author: Leslie Peter WenhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Study in Siegecraft
Author: Wylie ReevesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781858040455
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651
Author: Stanley D. M. CarpenterPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714655444
Category : Command of troops
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This work is a study of military leadership and resulting effectiveness in battlefield victory focusing on the parliamentary and royalist regional commanders in the north of England and Scotland in the three civil wars between 1642 and 1651.
Anatomy of a Siege
Author: Kenneth WigginsPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780851158273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
A rare, well-preserved example of the specialised military mining techniques employed in siege warfare.
The Lord’s battle
Author: William WhitePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526164698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book explores the preaching and printing of sermons by royalists during the English Revolution. While scholars have long recognised the central role played by preachers in driving forward the parliamentarian war-effort, the use of the pulpit by the king’s supporters has rarely been considered. The Lord’s battle, however, argues that the pulpit offered an especially vital platform for clergymen who opposed the dramatic changes in Church and state that England experienced in the mid-seventeenth century. It shows that royalists after 1640 were moved to rethink earlier attitudes to preaching and print, as the unique potential for sermons to influence both popular and elite audiences became clear. As well as contributing to our understanding of preaching during the Civil Wars therefore, this book engages with recent debates about the nature of royalism in seventeenth-century England.
'The Furie of the Ordnance'
Author: Stephen BullPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843834030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Shows how new developments in guns and artillery played a decisive role in the English Civil War.
If York be Lost... Information for Schools to Commemorate the Siege of York & the Battle of Marston Moor, 1644
Author: Atlas of the English Civil War
Author: P.R NewmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134644744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The English Civil War is a subject which continues to excite enormous interest throughout the world. This atlas consists of over fifty maps illustrating all the major - and many of the minor - bloody campaigns and battles of the War, including the campaigns of Montrose, the battle of Edgehill and Langport. Providing a complete introductory history to the turbulent period, it also includes: * maps giving essential background information * detailed accompanying explanations * a useful context to events.