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• catalog abstract "In a field in Nottingham in the summer of 1642, King Charles I watched his standard being raised in a high wind and driving rain. For six years thereafter, England was rent by civil war. "Whole counties became desperate," in the words of a Suffolk gentleman. Families and friends were bitterly divided as men left home to fight for King or Parliament. Castles and towns, which a year before had been "scenes of happiness and plenty," were besieged and attacked. Houses were plundered, churches and cathedrals desecrated. Savage battles were fought; and, as once-peaceful villages were overrun by hungry troops, so-called Clubmen seized arms to defend against one side or the other. Some 200,000 lives were lost, many from plague in strife-torn towns - and the king himself was beheaded on January 30, 1649. A social as well as a military history that vividly re-creates these scenes of war in England 350 years ago, Cavaliers and Roundheads is enlivened by astute and revealing character sketches, not only of the leading participants - the slight, sad, obstinate King; his dashing, ruthless nephew, Prince Rupert; the toweringly forceful and slovenly Oliver Cromwell - but also such half-forgotten characters as Sir Arthur Aston, the brutal, detested governor of Oxford whose brains were beaten out of his skull with his wooden leg; the fat French wife of the Earl of Derby, bravely defying her husband's enemies as cannon balls thudded into the walls of Lathom House; Abigail Penington, the Lady Mayoress, marching out with other City ladies and the fishwives of Billingsgate to work on London's fortifications.".
• catalog alternative "Cavaliers and roundheads.".
• catalog contributor b4815991.
• catalog coverage "Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649.".
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "1. The Gathering Storm -- 2. Taking Sides -- 3. Trial of Strength -- 4. The Spread of War -- 5. London and Oxford -- 6. Fighting in the West Country -- 7. Bristol and Gloucester -- 8. Colonel Cromwell's Men -- 9. Swings of Fortune -- 10. Roads to Marston Moor -- 11. Fighting Like Beasts -- 12. The New Model Army -- 13. Leicester and Naseby -- 14. Death Throes -- 15. Oxford Abandoned -- 16. Soldiers and Levellers -- 17. The Second Civil War -- 18. The Death of the King -- The Fate of Characters Whose End is Not Recorded in the Text -- Principal Civil War Sites, Buildings, Memorials and Museums in England.".
• catalog description "A social as well as a military history that vividly re-creates these scenes of war in England 350 years ago, Cavaliers and Roundheads is enlivened by astute and revealing character sketches, not only of the leading participants - the slight, sad, obstinate King; his dashing, ruthless nephew, Prince Rupert; the toweringly forceful and slovenly Oliver Cromwell - but also such half-forgotten characters as Sir Arthur Aston, the brutal, detested governor of Oxford whose brains were beaten out of his skull with his wooden leg; the fat French wife of the Earl of Derby, bravely defying her husband's enemies as cannon balls thudded into the walls of Lathom House; Abigail Penington, the Lady Mayoress, marching out with other City ladies and the fishwives of Billingsgate to work on London's fortifications.".
• catalog description "Houses were plundered, churches and cathedrals desecrated. Savage battles were fought; and, as once-peaceful villages were overrun by hungry troops, so-called Clubmen seized arms to defend against one side or the other. Some 200,000 lives were lost, many from plague in strife-torn towns - and the king himself was beheaded on January 30, 1649.".
• catalog description "In a field in Nottingham in the summer of 1642, King Charles I watched his standard being raised in a high wind and driving rain. For six years thereafter, England was rent by civil war. "Whole counties became desperate," in the words of a Suffolk gentleman. Families and friends were bitterly divided as men left home to fight for King or Parliament. Castles and towns, which a year before had been "scenes of happiness and plenty," were besieged and attacked.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-324) and index.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 337 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Cavaliers & roundheads.".
• catalog identifier "0684195577 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Cavaliers & roundheads.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : C. Scribner's Sons : Maxwell Macmillan International,".
• catalog relation "Cavaliers & roundheads.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog subject "941.06/2 20".
• catalog subject "DA415 .H43 1993".
• catalog subject "Roundheads.".
• catalog subject "Royalists Great Britain History 17th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Gathering Storm -- 2. Taking Sides -- 3. Trial of Strength -- 4. The Spread of War -- 5. London and Oxford -- 6. Fighting in the West Country -- 7. Bristol and Gloucester -- 8. Colonel Cromwell's Men -- 9. Swings of Fortune -- 10. Roads to Marston Moor -- 11. Fighting Like Beasts -- 12. The New Model Army -- 13. Leicester and Naseby -- 14. Death Throes -- 15. Oxford Abandoned -- 16. Soldiers and Levellers -- 17. The Second Civil War -- 18. The Death of the King -- The Fate of Characters Whose End is Not Recorded in the Text -- Principal Civil War Sites, Buildings, Memorials and Museums in England.".
• catalog title "Cavaliers & roundheads : the English Civil War, 1642-1649 / Christopher Hibbert.".
• catalog title "Cavaliers and roundheads.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".