The English Revolution and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652
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Gentles, Ian. The English Revolution and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652. Harlow: Pearson/Longman, 2007. (Modern Wars in Perspective).Table of Contents
Prologue -- Rebellion in the north -- The National Covenant -- The army of the Covenant -- The army of Charles I -- The First Bishops' War, 1639 -- The pacification of Berwick -- Kirk, Tables and estates: the Scottish parliament of 1639 -- The Second Bishops' War -- Dénouement at Newburn -- The Irish insurgency, 1641-42 -- Conquest, religion, land and ethnicity: the background of the 1641 rebellion -- The rise and fall of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1633-41 -- The rising in Ulster and its spread to the other provinces -- The atrocity stories and their impact -- The outbreak of civil war in England, 1640-42 -- Constitutional revolution: the Long Parliament and the people, 1640-42 -- Building and fuelling the machinery of war: recruitment, finance, logistics -- War in England: preliminary menoeuvres, January-August 1642 -- The navy -- Recruitment -- Finance -- Logistics -- Armour and equipment -- Horses -- Imports -- The English Civil War -- Transport -- Conclusion -- Popular allegiance in the English Civil War -- Popular allegiance -- Fluctuating allegiance -- Combat motivation -- War in England: the first year, 1642-43 -- The road to Edgehill -- The battle -- The march on London -- Peace or mass mobilization (i)? -- Adwalton Moor -- The west Midlands -- The centre: Reading -- The south-west -- Lansdown -- Roundway Down -- The political fall-out at Westminster -- Bristol and the undermining of Viscount Saye and Sele -- Peace or mass mobilization (ii)? -- The tide begins to turn -- The siege of Gloucester -- The battle of Newbury -- The hinge year, 1643-44 -- Ireland: the Cessation of September 1643 -- England: the alliance with Scotland -- The Solemn League and Covenant -- England: the winter campaign: Alton, Arundel and Nantwich -- 1644: the spring campaign -- The summer campaign: Marston Moor -- The late summer and autumn campaign -- The aftermath of Marston Moor and Lostwithiel -- Hope revived: royalists counterattack, roundheads regroup, September 1644-May 1645 -- The Irish theatre -- The Scottish theatre -- The English theatre: Second Newbury -- The Self-Denying Ordinance -- The Uxbridge Treaty -- The New Model Army -- The exploits of Montrose -- The king vanquished, 1645-46 -- England: the spring campaign -- Scotland: Montrose vanquished -- Dénouement: England, July 1645-June 1646 -- England: the royalist collapse -- Ireland: September 1644-September 1646 -- The wars carried on by other means: the political struggles of 1646-48 -- Charles I and the Scots -- Ireland: the Ormond Peace and Rinuccini -- England: the Newcastle Propositions -- Ireland -- England -- The Engagement of Charles I with the Scots -- Conclusion -- The War of the Engagement--1648 -- Scotland -- Ireland -- England -- Wales -- Maidstone -- The siege of Colchester -- Preston -- Regicide and republic -- The Newport Treaty -- The Army and the Levellers -- Pride's Purge -- The arrival of Cromwell -- The navy -- Ormond -- The Agreement of the People -- The king's trial -- Ormond, Cromwell, the Levellers and Ireland -- Ormond and the Association of Confederate Catholics -- Preparations in England -- The Leveller mutiny -- The Cromwellian invasion -- Rathmines -- Drogheda -- Wexford -- Waterford -- Kilkenny and Clonmel -- Scarrifhollis -- Limerick -- Guerilla warfare, 1651-52 -- The land settlement -- War between Scotland and England, 1650-51 -- The Battle of Dunbar -- The Battle of Worcester -- Conclusion -- Audit of war: the human and material cost -- Introduction -- Deaths and wounds -- Property damage -- Taxation and land confiscations, or, the macroparasitism of the state -- Free quarter and plunder -- Scotland -- Ireland -- Conclusion -- EpiloguePublisher
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