How the Scots Won the English Civil War: The Triumph of Fraser's Dragoons - Softcover

Mcrae, Alisdair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752498606 ISBN 13: 9780752498607

Verlag: The History Press, 2013

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A history that ties together key events in the war, while also focusing in soldiers' equipment, clothing, tactics, and experiences

This history of the battles, marches, and sieges of the Scottish Covenanter Army and its one dragoon regiment&;Colonel Hugh Fraser's dragoones&;shows how they were instrumental in Parliament's victory in northern England and ultimately the defeat of King Charles I. The book looks at the victories of the Marquis of Montrose against Scots government troops, which led to a cavalry strike force, including Fraser's dragoones, returning from England to crush his army at Philiphaugh, ending his influence in the north. Finally, it traces the dissolution of Fraser's and other Scottish regiments, the mysterious death of Colonel Fraser at his home near Inverness, and the shift in the north towards Charles II, prior to the fate of the Scots' and royalists' causes being sealed at Dunbar and Worcester in 1650 and 1651. Alisdair McRae puts a controversial but powerful case for the primacy of the war in the north in the defeat of Charles I.

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Alisdair McRae is a Scottish historian and from 1979-2000 participated in and organized civil war battle and living history events in Britain, as well as 30 Years War displays in France and Germany.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The History Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0752498606
• ISBN 13: 9780752498607
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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