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History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 Volume 2; 1651-1653

History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 Volume 2; 1651-1653


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1651 GROWING DANGER 39 Prince and all the ensuing miseries of this nation will be at your doors. 1 On the morning of the igth, whilst Massey was riding off to rejoin the King, who was at that time breaking up from Stoke on his forward march, Derby held a council of war at Warrington, where it was resolved to raise in the county a force of 1,3oo horse and 6,0oo foot, by virtue of the obligation under which every able-bodied Englishman had been bound to serve the King in the days when the monarchical system had been in full force.2 It would take some time to collect so large a force, and Cromwell had already provided that the necessary time should not be allowed. On his passage through Yorkshire Aug. 21-24. a o Robert he had sent orders to Robert Lilburne, who was move- attached to the force under Lambert and Harrison, to remain in Lancashire, and at Lilburne's request he also sent his own regiment of foot to Manchester.3 From the 22nd onwards Lilburne was actively engaged in skirmishing with the enemy, but till Cromwell's regiment arrived he had but a handful of infantry with him, and shrank from bringing on a general engagement. On the morning of the 25th he discovered that Derby, by this time at the head of some 1,5oo men, was advancing from Preston in the direction of Manchester, where the population was strongly Royalist, and that no less than 5oo recruits from that Royalist town were prepared to join the enemy. Lilburne therefore fell back through Wigan, hoping to postpone fighting till he could effect a junction with the infantry regiment by this time advancing from Manchester to his help. Entangled in the lanes to the south of the town, he was compelled to fight in a position as disadvantageous to unprotected cavalry as it was possible to con- Aug 25. ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459081949
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 126
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459081943
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 240 gr

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