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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... victory was mainly owing to Manchester's indecision . When , a few days later , the King reappeared on the scene , he was allowed to relieve Donnington Castle , in the immediate neigh- bourhood of Newbury , no attempt whatever being ...
... victory was mainly owing to Manchester's indecision . When , a few days later , the King reappeared on the scene , he was allowed to relieve Donnington Castle , in the immediate neigh- bourhood of Newbury , no attempt whatever being ...
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... victory gained by Charles would not only expose those who had dared to make war on him to the hideous penalties of the law of treason- but would enable him to measure the terms of sub- mission by his own resolves . if Manchester had had ...
... victory gained by Charles would not only expose those who had dared to make war on him to the hideous penalties of the law of treason- but would enable him to measure the terms of sub- mission by his own resolves . if Manchester had had ...
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... victory . It was enough for him to grasp the actual situation . It is true that , at this time , he had not got beyond the position from which the whole of the Parliamentary party had started at the beginning of the war - the position ...
... victory . It was enough for him to grasp the actual situation . It is true that , at this time , he had not got beyond the position from which the whole of the Parliamentary party had started at the beginning of the war - the position ...
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... victory , its movements must be guided , not by politicians at Westminster , but by the general in the field . The first act of the Com- mittee was to send Fairfax with eleven thousand men to the relief of Taunton , where Blake , who ...
... victory , its movements must be guided , not by politicians at Westminster , but by the general in the field . The first act of the Com- mittee was to send Fairfax with eleven thousand men to the relief of Taunton , where Blake , who ...
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... victory was beyond dispute . Cromwell , as was his usual habit , ascribed this success to Divine aid . " I can say this of Naseby , " he wrote , " that when I saw the enemy draw up and march in gallant order towards us , and we a 62 ...
... victory was beyond dispute . Cromwell , as was his usual habit , ascribed this success to Divine aid . " I can say this of Naseby , " he wrote , " that when I saw the enemy draw up and march in gallant order towards us , and we a 62 ...
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