Oliver CromwellLongmans, Green, 1909 - 319 páginas This volume is an extensive biography of Oliver Cromwell, but according to its preface, the author suggests that it is a history. Gardiner makes a point to distinguish a history with a biographical viewpoint from that of a strict biography. |
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... field he did not join the main army till the Royalist horse had ceased to trouble it . At all events , he took his share in the indispensable service rendered by the little force of cavalry remaining at Essex's disposal , when in the ...
... field he did not join the main army till the Royalist horse had ceased to trouble it . At all events , he took his share in the indispensable service rendered by the little force of cavalry remaining at Essex's disposal , when in the ...
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... Field . Lord Fairfax and his son , Sir Thomas Fairfax , were with difficulty holding their own in the West Riding of Yorkshire against a Royalist force under the command of the Earl of Newcastle . By the middle of the year , the ...
... Field . Lord Fairfax and his son , Sir Thomas Fairfax , were with difficulty holding their own in the West Riding of Yorkshire against a Royalist force under the command of the Earl of Newcastle . By the middle of the year , the ...
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... field by our forces to accomplish the common ends . " To subordinate local interests to the ' common ends ' was as much the con- dition of Cromwell's success as the discipline under which he had brought the fiery troops under his com ...
... field by our forces to accomplish the common ends . " To subordinate local interests to the ' common ends ' was as much the con- dition of Cromwell's success as the discipline under which he had brought the fiery troops under his com ...
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... field . The existing military system by which separate armies , to a great ex- tent composed of local forces , and therefore unable to subordinate local to national objects , had been placed under commanders selected for their political ...
... field . The existing military system by which separate armies , to a great ex- tent composed of local forces , and therefore unable to subordinate local to national objects , had been placed under commanders selected for their political ...
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... field with an army commanded by professional soldiers , and withdrawn from local and political influences . In such an army nothing more would be heard of the dangers of success which had loomed so large before the eye of Manchester ...
... field with an army commanded by professional soldiers , and withdrawn from local and political influences . In such an army nothing more would be heard of the dangers of success which had loomed so large before the eye of Manchester ...
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