All the King's Armies: a Military History of the English Civil War 1642-1651

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Cover; Title; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps; List of Plates; Preface; Introduction The Beginning of the Wars; Chapter I All the King's Horses and All the King's Men: The Soldiers; Chapter II Over by Christmas: The Edgehill Campaign 1642; Chapter III The King's Road: Stalemate on the Central Front; Chapter IV Cornishmen and True: The Western Front 1642-1643; Chapter V High Tide: The Central Front 1643; Chapter VI Coals from Newcastle: The Northern War 1642-1643; Chapter VII The Newarkers: The War in Lincolnshire 1643; Chapter VIII Holding the Gates: Nantwich, Newark and Selby.;On 23 September 1642 Prince Rupert's cavalry triumphed outside Worcester in the first major clash of the English Civil War. Almost precisely nine years later, on 3 September 1651, that war was won by Oliver Cromwell's famous Ironsides outside the same city and in part upon the same ground. Stuart Reid provides a detailed yet readable new military history - the first to be published for over twenty years - of the three conflicts between 1642 and 1651 known as the English Civil War. Prince Rupert, Oliver Cromwell, Patrick Ruthven, Alexander Leslie and Sir Thomas Fairfax all play their parts in t.