Военная история / The English Civil War: A Military History

Название: The English Civil War: A Military History
Автор: Peter Gaunt
Издательство: I.B.Tauris
Год: 2014
Страниц: 231
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 53 MB

'Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July 1644 Parliament had won an emphatic victory over a Royalist army commanded by King Charles I's nephew, Prince Rupert, on rolling moorland west of York.