Author: C.H. FirthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Cromwell's War Machine
Author: Keith RobertsPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781596794
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A historian of the English Civil Wars shares a fascinating study of the seventeenth century New Model Army, examining its formation, tactics, and significance. The New Model Army was one of the best-known and most effective armies ever raised in England. Oliver Cromwell was both its greatest battlefield commander and the political leader whose position depended on its support. In this meticulously researched and accessible new study, Keith Roberts describes how Cromwell's army was recruited, inspired, organized, trained, and equipped. He also sets its strategic and tactical operation in the context of the theory and practice of warfare in seventeenth-century Europe.
Cromwell's Army
Author: C.H. FirthCromwell's Army
Author: Charles Harding FirthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Cromwell's Army
Author: Charles Harding FirthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Army in Cromwellian England, 1649-1660
Author: Henry ReecePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191645133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
From 1649-1660 England was ruled by a standing army for the only time in its history. In The Army in Cromwellian England Henry Reece describes the nature of that experience for the first time, both for officers and soldiers, and for civilian society. The volume is structured in three parts. The first section seeks to capture the experience of being a member of a peacetime standing army: its varying size, the reasons why men joined and remained in service, how long they served for, what officers and their men spent their time doing in peacetime, the criteria governing promotion, and the way in which officers and soldiers engaged with political issues as the army's role changed from the pressure-group politics of the late 1640s to the institutionalization of its power after 1653. The second part explores the impact of the military presence on civilian society by establishing where soldiers were quartered and garrisoned, how effectively and regularly they were paid, the material burden that they represented, the divisive effects on some major towns of the army's patronage of religious radicals, and the extensive involvement of army officers in the government of the localities, both before and after the brief appearance of Cromwell's Major-Generals. The final section pulls together the themes from the earlier parts of the book by re-evaluating the army's role in political events from Cromwell's death to the restoration of the Stuart monarchy; it describes how the issues of the rapidly-increasing size of the army, shortage of pay, civil-military clashes, and the exercise of military authority at local level contributed to the climate of disorder and uncertainty in 1659-1660; and delineates how and why the army that had occupied London, purged parliament, and executed Charles I in the late 1640s could acquiesce so passively in the restoration of the monarchy in 1659-1600.
The Regimental History of Cromwell's Army
Author: Charles Harding FirthPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This book is a classic history of Cromwell's army, which has long been unavailable. It provides a detailed and comprehensive survey of the many regiments and their officers, beginning with the raising of the Ironsides in 1642, which formed the nucleus of Cromwell's New Model Army. The two volumes examine the origins and history of the regiments, the careers and beliefs of their officers, the course of the Civil War, and the activities of the army outside Britain.
Cromwell's Army
Author: Charles Harding FirthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Cromwell at War
Author: Martyn BennettPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178672247X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Martyn Bennett here provides the first military biography of Cromwell in the context of the seventeenth century Military Revolution. After commanding a small troop in 1643 and, without prior military experience, Cromwell rose to lead the cavalry regiments of the Eastern Association Army and the New Model Army to final victory at Worcester in 1651 and sealed the victory of the Parliamentary forces in Ireland and Scotland, becoming Lord General in 1650. Martyn Bennett analyses Cromwell's military talents and generalship, in addition to his well-attested powerful and even brutal discipline and religious fervour. He examines the controversial Irish campaigns as well as modern accusations of genocide. In providing new perspectives on Cromwell's military career, Bennett adds to our understanding of England's only non-royal head of state.
The Making of Oliver Cromwell
Author: Ronald HuttonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300257457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
The first volume in a pioneering account of Oliver Cromwell--providing a major new interpretation of one of the greatest figures in history Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)--the only English commoner to become the overall head of state--is one of the great figures of history, but his character was very complex. He was at once courageous and devout, devious and self-serving; as a parliamentarian, he was devoted to his cause; as a soldier, he was ruthless. Cromwell's speeches and writings surpass in quantity those of any other ruler of England before Victoria and, for those seeking to understand him, he has usually been taken at his word. In this remarkable new work, Ronald Hutton untangles the facts from the fiction. Cromwell, pursuing his devotion to God and cementing his Puritan support base, quickly transformed from obscure provincial to military victor. At the end of the first English Civil War, he was poised to take power. Hutton reveals a man who was both genuine in his faith and deliberate in his dishonesty--and uncovers the inner workings of the man who has puzzled biographers for centuries.
Cromwell as a Soldier
Author: Thomas Stanford BaldockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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