Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

02.68 - The War of the Engagement

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After two months delay, the Duke of Hamilton finally leads his ragtag army across the border into England. Almost all his English allies have been defeated, and all King Charles' hopes rest with him. Oliver Cromwell and John Lambert are determined to crush those hopes.

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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

  • Kenyon, J. and Ohlmeyer, J., The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1638-1660.
  • Harris, T. Rebellion
  • Healey, J. The Blazing World.
  • MacInnes, A., The British Revolution, 1629-60.
  • Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
  • Michael J. Braddick, 'War and Politics in England and Wales, 1642-1646', in Michael Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
  • Michael J. Braddick, God's Fury, England's Fire
  • Peter Gaunt, The English Civil War: A Military History
  • Blair Worden, The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660
  • Ian Gentles, The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652
  • Antonia Fraser, Cromwell: Our Chief of Men
  • Kishlansky, M, Monarchy Transformed
  • Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
  • Steve Murdoch (ed), Scotland and the Thirty Years' War
  • Stuart Reid, Crown, Covenant, and Cromwell: The Civil Wars in Scotland, 1639-1651.
  • Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51


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