Among the Great Masters of Warfare; Scenes in the Lives of Famous Warriors (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... CROMWELL "It was by his military genius, by the might of the legions that he created and controlled and led to victory upon victory; it was at Marston and Naseby, at Preston and Worcester, in Ireland and at Dunbar, that Cromwell set his deep mark on the destinies of England as she was, and of that vaster dominion into which the English realm was in the course of ages to be transformed."--John Morley. The distinguished English writer from whose book on Cromwell the above lines are taken, sees an interesting similarity between the conflict at Bunker Hill and that at Marston Moor. These battles, he says, "rank among those engagements that have a lasting significance in history, where military results were secondary to moral effect. It was these encounters that first showed that the champions of the popular cause intended and were able to make a stand-up fight against the forces of the monarchy." On the changeable July day when Marston Moor was fought, forty-five thousand men faced each other on either side of the ditch which divided the armies, during a long afternoon. Then, as Baldock's account says: "Rupert and Newcastle met and discussed the situation. It was seven o'clock, too late to begin the action. The Roundheads were short of provisions, there was no water but that in puddles on their side, the wells near Marston had already been drunk dry. It would be better to rest and refresh their men and attack the fasting enemy in the morning. Newcastle turned off to his coach to sup and sleep. Rupert to his, to solace his impatient temper with a pipe. Probably an order was passed through the ranks that the men might eat their suppers. But there were quick, eager eyes watching every movement in the royalist army from the corn-fields on the gentle slopes yonder. ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... CROMWELL "It was by his military genius, by the might of the legions that he created and controlled and led to victory upon victory; it was at Marston and Naseby, at Preston and Worcester, in Ireland and at Dunbar, that Cromwell set his deep mark on the destinies of England as she was, and of that vaster dominion into which the English realm was in the course of ages to be transformed."--John Morley. The distinguished English writer from whose book on Cromwell the above lines are taken, sees an interesting similarity between the conflict at Bunker Hill and that at Marston Moor. These battles, he says, "rank among those engagements that have a lasting significance in history, where military results were secondary to moral effect. It was these encounters that first showed that the champions of the popular cause intended and were able to make a stand-up fight against the forces of the monarchy." On the changeable July day when Marston Moor was fought, forty-five thousand men faced each other on either side of the ditch which divided the armies, during a long afternoon. Then, as Baldock's account says: "Rupert and Newcastle met and discussed the situation. It was seven o'clock, too late to begin the action. The Roundheads were short of provisions, there was no water but that in puddles on their side, the wells near Marston had already been drunk dry. It would be better to rest and refresh their men and attack the fasting enemy in the morning. Newcastle turned off to his coach to sup and sleep. Rupert to his, to solace his impatient temper with a pipe. Probably an order was passed through the ranks that the men might eat their suppers. But there were quick, eager eyes watching every movement in the royalist army from the corn-fields on the gentle slopes yonder. ...

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General Books LLC

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United States

Release date

February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 2mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

98

ISBN-13

978-0-217-77347-8

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9780217773478

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0-217-77347-8



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