Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 The Minstrel Boy; Chapter 1 The Art of Command; Chapter 2 Politics, Religion and War in Early Seventeenthcentury Britain; Part 2 Chariot of Fire; Chapter 3 ‘Miserable Bloody Distempers’; Chapter 4 ‘In the Ranks of Death’; Chapter 5 ‘Inexorable Things’; Chapter 6 ‘My Bow and Arrows’; Conclusion Conclusion;

About the Author

Stanley D.M. Carpenter, a Professor of Strategy and Policy at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, currently serves as the Deputy Strategy and Policy Division Head for the Naval War College's College of Distance Education. Additionally, he serves as the Naval War College Command Historian. A United States Naval Officer since 1979 in both the Active and Reserve Components, Captain Carpenter has held three Commanding Officer billets and is a Surface Warfare Officer having served in cruisers, destroyers and amphibious ships and Reserve support units. His major field of research is seventeenth and eighteenth-century British Military and Naval History.