Research Catalog

Title

Civil War : the wars of the three kingdoms, 1638-1660 / Trevor Royle.

Author

Royle, Trevor.

Publication

London : Little, Brown, ©2004.

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Details

Description

xiii, 888 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

This title provides a general history of the English Civil War, from its outbreak in 1639 to the last battle in 1659.

Subjects

• Ireland
• Scotland
• Great Britain
• 1600-1714
• English Civil War > (Great Britain : > 1642-1649)
• Military history
• History
• Ireland > History > 17th century
• Scotland > History > 17th century
• Great Britain > History, Military > 1603-1714
• Great Britain > History > Charles I, 1625-1649
• Great Britain > History > Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660
• Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649
• Burgeroorlogen

Genre/Form

• History.
• Military history.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [825]-832) and index.

Contents

Prologue : the Battle of L?tzen 1632 -- pt. 1. The descent to war, 1638-1642. The illustrious hope of Great Britain -- The personal rule -- The Crown and the kirk -- 'That glorious marriage of the Kingdom with God' -- The assembly in Glasgow -- For Christ's crown and covenant : the First Bishops' War -- Foul and horrid treason : the Second Bishop's War -- The gathering storm -- Ireland in flames -- The storm finally breaks -- pt. 2. The first Civil War, 1642-1647. Father against son, brother against brother -- First shots : Edgehill -- The failure to take London -- Hearts and cities : the war to win the centre -- Western wonder : the war in the West Country -- Changing fortunes : the war in the North -- Stalemate -- Keep your powder dry : Marston Moor -- The pity of war -- Smile out to God in praises : Naseby -- Montrose's annus mirabilis -- Things fall apart -- Confederates for the King -- The beginning of the end -- The levellers and the Putney debates -- The King's engagement -- pt. 3. The Second and Third Civil Wars, 1648-1651. Wales rises for the King -- A summer of discontent -- Nothing but the hand of God : Preston -- Pride's purge -- That memorable scene -- The creation of a Commonwealth -- Those barbarous wretches : Drogheda and Wexford -- The curse of Cromwell -- Prince of Wales, King of Scotland -- A signal mercy : Dunbar -- Hammer of the Scots -- Hell or Connacht : the subjugation of Scotland and Ireland -- pt. 4. The protectorate, 1653-1659. Winning the peace -- My delight amongst the nations : the Anglo-Dutch War -- Cromwell, Lord Protector -- The Cromwellian settlement in Scotland and Ireland -- 'Silly mean fellows' : the rule of the major-generals -- Fighting the Lord's battles : the war against Spain -- King Cromwell and Tumbledown Dick -- The King comes into his own -- pt. 5. Restoration, 1660. Revenge and restraint -- The settlement of the three kingdoms -- The Civil Wars and modern memory -- Epilogue : Lexington and Concord, 1775.

ISBN

• 0316861251
• 9780316861250

LCCN

2004478507

OCLC

• ocm56449323
• 56449323
• SCSB-14041969

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library