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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... regiment marching across open country required cavalry as a convoy to ward off destructive attacks by the enemy's horse . So unquestioned was the inferiority of infantry , that unless the horsemen who gathered round Charles's standard ...
... regiment marching across open country required cavalry as a convoy to ward off destructive attacks by the enemy's horse . So unquestioned was the inferiority of infantry , that unless the horsemen who gathered round Charles's standard ...
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... there was no cavalry at all . It was the co - operation of this force which , by assailing in flank and rear the King's foot regiments , whilst the infantry broke them up in front , enabled the Parlia- 30 OLIVER CROMWELL .
... there was no cavalry at all . It was the co - operation of this force which , by assailing in flank and rear the King's foot regiments , whilst the infantry broke them up in front , enabled the Parlia- 30 OLIVER CROMWELL .
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... regiment , and on July 28 that regi- ment defeated a strong body of Royalist horse near Gainsborough . Later in the day news was brought that a force of the enemy was approaching from the North . Cromwell , whose cavalry was supported ...
... regiment , and on July 28 that regi- ment defeated a strong body of Royalist horse near Gainsborough . Later in the day news was brought that a force of the enemy was approaching from the North . Cromwell , whose cavalry was supported ...
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... regiments under Cromwell's command swarmed with enthusiasts who spent their leisure in preaching and arguing on the most abstruse points of divinity , agreeing in nothing except that argument was to be met by argument alone . Their iron ...
... regiments under Cromwell's command swarmed with enthusiasts who spent their leisure in preaching and arguing on the most abstruse points of divinity , agreeing in nothing except that argument was to be met by argument alone . Their iron ...
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... regiments of foot were routed or destroyed by his impetuous charge . Cromwell had redeemed the day after the three generals , Leven , Manchester and the elder Fairfax , had fled from that which they deemed to be a complete disaster ...
... regiments of foot were routed or destroyed by his impetuous charge . Cromwell had redeemed the day after the three generals , Leven , Manchester and the elder Fairfax , had fled from that which they deemed to be a complete disaster ...
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