Table of Contents

Series preface; Introduction; Part I The Nature of the Armies and War in the British Civil Wars, 1639 - 60: The army of the Eastern Association, 1644 - 5, Godfrey Davies; The formation of the New Model Army, Godfrey Davies; The Parliamentary army under the Earl of Essex, 1642-5, Godfrey Davies; Gunpowder and the English Civil War, Peter R. Edwards; The supply of horses in the Parliamentarian and Royalist armies in the English Civil War, Peter R. Edwards; Fairfax and the Lifeguards' colors, J. Mark Heumann; The case of the army truly stated: the creation of the New Model Army, Mark Kishlansky; The Royalist officer corps 1642 - 1660: army command as a reflexion of the social structure, P.R. Newman; Cromwell's trailblazer? Reinterpreting the Earl of Essex, Graham Seel; Militarie instructions for the cavallerie, Thomas M. Spaulding; The logistics of the Cromwellian conquest of Scotland 1650 - 1651, James Scott Wheeler; Part II Related Aspects of the British Civil Wars, 1639 - 60: The English context of the British Civil Wars, John Adamson; Atrocity, war crime, and treason in the English Civil War, Barbara Donagan; Why men fought in the British Civil Wars, 1639 - 1652, Ian Gentles; Scotland, Ireland and the English Civil War, Charles L. Hamilton; The clubmen of the West Riding of Yorkshire during the First Civil War, A.J. Hopper; Essex and the King's cause in 1648, Brian Lyndon; A King in search of soldiers: Charles I in 1642, Joyce L. Malcolm; Mutiny and discontent in English provincial armies, 1645 - 1647, J.S. Morill; The wars of the three kingdoms, Jane Ohlmeyer; The fire-raid in the English Civil War, Stephen Porter; Why did people choose sides in the English Civil War, Conrad, Earl Russell; Charles I and Alexander Leslie, C. Stanford and Elizabeth Terry; Part III Military Campaigns and Battles of the British Civil Wars, 1639 - 60: The sieges of Hull during the Great Civil War, Ernest Broxap; A Royalist account of the withdrawal of the King's forces from Taunton 13 Dec. 1644, James Coleman and Wyndham Edmund; The battle of Edgehill, Godfrey Davies; Phoney war - England, summer 1642, Chris Durston; The bridge of boats at Gloucester, 1642 - 44, D.S. Evans; The journal of Prince Rupert's marches, 5 Sept. 1642 to 4 July 1646, C.H.Firth; The struggle for London in the Second Civil War, Ian Gentles; Joseph Jane's account of Cromwell during the Civil War, Joseph Janes and Amos C. Miller; The battle of Naseby, W.G. Ross; Cromwell at Drogheda, 1679, J.G. Simms; 'The great rout': the Cornish rising of 1648 and the Second Civil War, Mark Stoyle; Index.

About the Author

Stanley Carpenter is Professor of Strategy and Policy at the College of Distance Education, United States Naval War College, USA.