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The Second Battle of Preston, 1715: The Last Battle on English Soil

Author : Jonathan David Oates
Publisher : Century of the Soldier
ISBN 13 : 9781915070319
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Second Battle of Preston, 1715: The Last Battle on English Soil written by Jonathan David Oates and published by Century of the Soldier. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second battle of Preston was the first battle of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 and was the last to be fought on English soil. This book provides a new account of the events leading up to the campaign, focussing on events in England but not neglecting those in Scotland and on the Continent. It then moves onto explore the movements of both armies, British and Jacobite, and not neglecting civilian forces, as they marched through Northumberland, the Scottish Lowlands and then in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire. It deals with both strategic as well as the tactical, with civilian as well as military actions.Both armies, generals, officers and men, are then examined; who they were, their strengths and weaknesses. Their training, equipment, origins and experience are surveyed.The main chapter concerns the three day battle of Preston. It shows how the armies prepared for battle and how their initial deployments were made and why. There is then a detailed narrative of the attacks on the Jacobite positions in Preston by the British forces led by General Wills. The fighting is given in detail, with analysis. The second and third days of the conflict, focussing on the surrender negotiations and the dissension am on the Jacobite army, prior to their total capitulation. The importance of the battle is analysed.Finally, there is the need to count the cost of the battle. This had been heavy for the attacking army and light for the defenders. However, the cost to the defeated army was only apparent after the defeat. Some were executed but far more were transported to the American colonies and the West Indies, others died in gaol; finally in 1717 the remainder were released.The appendices give listings of some of the men who fought the battle, with their parish of origin and former occupations.

The Last Battle on English Soil, Preston 1715

Author : Jonathan Oates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317026411
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Last Battle on English Soil, Preston 1715 written by Jonathan Oates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst much has been written about the Jacobites, most works have tended to look at the Rebellion of 1745, rather than the earlier attempt to reinstate the Stuart dynasty. As such this book provides a welcome focus on events in 1715, when Jacobites in both England and Scotland tried to oust George I and to replace him with James Stuart. In particular it provides a detailed narrative and analysis of the campaign in the Lowlands of Scotland and in the north of England that led to the decisive battle at Preston and ended the immediate prospects of the Jacobite cause. Drawing upon a wealth of under-utilised sources, the work builds on existing research into the period to give weight to the community and individual dimensions of the crisis as well as to the military ones. Contrary to popular myth, the Jacobite army contained both English and Scots, and because it surrendered almost intact, an analysis of the surviving list of Jacobite prisoners captured in the North West England reveals much information about their origins, occupations, unit structure and, sometimes, religion, as well as the quality of the soldiers’ arms and equipment, their experience and that of their leaders. Through this study of the last major battle to be fought on English soil, a clearer picture emerges of the individuals and groups who sought to mould the direction of the freshly created British state and the dynasty that should rule it.

The Last Battle on English Soil Preston 1715

Author : Jonathan Oates
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781472441560
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Last Battle on English Soil Preston 1715 written by Jonathan Oates and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Raw Generals and Green Soldiers

Author : Pádraig Lenihan
Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1804516465
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Raw Generals and Green Soldiers written by Pádraig Lenihan and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven years of conflict that engulfed Ireland (1641-53) can be seen as a drama in three acts, each of which drew Ireland into progressively closer alignment with the Civil Wars (1642-52) in the other two Stuart kingdoms, Scotland and England. The first act in the Wars of Religion in Ireland (1641-53) began in October 1641 with a rising in Ulster and shuddered to a halt in September 1643 when the insurgents, now embodied as the Confederate Catholics, agreed a ceasefire with Charles I’s representative in Ireland. This study is confined to Act One to manage its sheer scope and scale. Not a single county in Ireland was unscathed by war and in summer 1642 there were more men under arms than there ever had been or would be again. Moreover, Act One was singularly nasty. Insurgent slaughter of Protestant settlers in the winter of 1641-42 quickly gained canonical status. English and Scots armies routinely massacred natives in the spring and summer that followed. After their uprising failed, the Irish in 1642 were attacked by English and Scottish armies that were bigger, in aggregate, than any before or since. And that includes the armies of Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell and William of Orange. Lacking munitions, forced to disperse their strength, and usually outfought in open battle, the Confederate Catholics pushed back in war-as-process and food-fights in which castles dominating a chequerboard of hinterlands jostled with hostile neighbors. The Catholics were winning this small war when the music stopped in 1643. This is a study of the Catholic armies in Act One through a succinct narrative which reveals underlying pattern and purpose in what would otherwise be one apparently random battle, siege, skirmish, massacre, and cattle raid after another, devoid of form or meaning. The narrative focuses in and out, from the strategic through the operational down to the tactical and what happened in a particular place on a given day. The narrative also shifts from the southern or Leinster/Munster theater to the northern or Connacht/Ulster theater. Meaning is disclosed through narrative in which the strengths and shortcomings of the Irish armies become clearer. The quotation in the title sets up two such shortcomings, of leaders and led. One reason why the Catholics lost so many battles may be that their generals fought battles when they needn’t have, showed a fatal preference for the all-out attack, and did not always deploy in a manner that let their army’s components, pike, shot and horse act in mutual support. Another reason may be that the rankers were less invested in the Catholic cause than their officers. But the establishing quotation is followed by a question mark. Perhaps the real question to be asked is how the Catholic armies achieved so much rather than why they failed.

The Khotyn Campaign of 1621

Author : Micha? Paradowski
Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1804514993
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Khotyn Campaign of 1621 written by Micha? Paradowski and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In autumn 1621, at a fortified camp near Khotyn (Chocim), in the Principality of Moldavia, allied Polish, Lithuanian and Cossack armies faced a large Ottoman army led by Sultan Osman II. It was the concluding act of a war that had started with the defeat of a Polish army at Cecora one year earlier. As such it was actually part of the longer conflict, waged over the Commonwealth’s and the Ottoman’s influence over Moldavia. Throughout the whole of September and the first half of October 1621, the allied army managed to defend their camps against Turks, with both sides taking heavy losses from the hardship of the siege operations and worsening weather conditions. The conflict ended with the Treaty of Khotyn (9 October 1621) which did not particularly favor either of the sides. All the same, stopping the Ottoman was seen as a huge success for the Commonwealth, while attitudes on the Ottoman sides were far from victorious. The aftershock of the war led to the rebellion of janissaries in 1622, resulting in the overthrow and murder of Sultan Osman II. The book focuses on the Khotyn campaign of 1621, describing the day-by-day actions of the combatant armies – assaults, sallies and raids – during the whole of the siege. Additional theaters of war, such as Cossack operations from the summer of 1621 and Tatars raids against the Polish interior, are described as well. The reader will also find here details of the organization and strength of the fighting armies, information about the battle dispositions of the troops at Khotyn and commanders leading the troops. Actions leading to the outbreak of the open conflict between the Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire are explained in a separate chapter, providing a good historical background of the war. Another chapter covers the outcome of the war and the ways that influenced the internal and external situation of both the Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire. As with his previous works, the author has utilized a large number of primary sources: from the diaries of soldiers taking part in the campaign, through chronicles, official letters and documents from the period to army musters. Among the documents used are not only those written by Poles and Lithuanians, but also documents from Cossacks, Germans and Ottomans. Modern works, especially from Polish and Ukrainian historians, have also been used, in order to provide the most up-to-date and in-depth research. As this topic has previously not had much coverage in English, this book will be a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in Zaporozhian Cossacks and in the Ottoman Empire in the early seventeenth century.

A Lancashire Miscellany

Author : Tom Holman
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 1907666419
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book A Lancashire Miscellany written by Tom Holman and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you make a Lancashire Hot Pot? Why did a red rose become the emblem of Lancashire? Where can you find Bedlam, Buttock and Little Tongues? Which Italian opera was set in Lancashire? What is the highest point in the county? When is Lancashire Day? Find all the answers and much more besides in A Lancashire Miscellany-a treasure trove of knowledge about this wonderful part of England. Whether you're a true Lancastrian or just passing through, this book is an entertaining romp through the people and places of the wonderful county. Teach yourself the Lancashire lingo with a gradely guide to local dialect and sayings, and pick up tips for cooking famous local specialities like black pudding and Eccles cakes. From Prime Ministers to rock stars, read the stories of famous Lancastrians through the ages, and discover some of the quirky customs of the region. From its famous landmarks and industries to its cultural and sporting highlights, A Lancashire Miscellany is bursting with intriguing facts and figures-a book to dip into again and again. This title is also available as an ebook, in either Kindle, ePub or PDF editions

Charles XII's Karoliners

Author : Sergey Shamenkov
Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1804515957
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Charles XII's Karoliners written by Sergey Shamenkov and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the evolution and changes in Swedish infantry and artillery uniforms during the Great Northern War. The author reconstructs in detail the appearance of infantry and artillery officers, NCOs, and privates of the time of Charles XII, drawing on a number of studies and articles, and based on extant artifacts, and written and iconographic documents that have survived to our time. The book illustrates both major and minor changes in the cut, style, and adornments of the uniforms of infantry and artillery officers, NCOs, and privates that occurred shortly before or during the war. It also provides detailed insights into the differences between the Carolean uniforms of the “older model” of 1687, which served as the basis for later modifications, and the “younger model” of 1706, as well as into different variations in transitional models existing between the two. The book also studies the different variations of headgear used by Swedish officers, NCOs, and privates, with a particular focus on grenadier caps, and examines soldiers’ accouterments and dress. The uniforms and insignia of Swedish infantry and artillery officers are described in a separate section. Along with published sources, this book also relies on little-known or previously unpublished documents. The text is accompanied with photos of surviving uniforms, archaeological finds and period artworks, and is richly illustrated with the author’s graphic reconstructions of period uniforms. A full-color section is dedicated to the author’s own plates, which show officers, NCOs, and privates of Charles XII’s army during the Great Northern War. These eye-catching graphic reconstructions with detailed descriptions will be helpful for historians, artists, reenactors, and filmmakers. They will also be invaluable to those who are fond of historical figurines and to those who create their own tabletop armies to play out historical battles.

The Rough Guide to Cult Football

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
ISBN 13 : 1405387963
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Cult Football written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Cult Football is the ultimate companion to the beautiful game. The only football book of its kind, it goes beyond the usual back page material to uncover the most amazing stories and unlikeliest personalities on Planet Football. It reveals the stories behind the mavericks and cult figures that make up the real heroes of the game - from cultured midfielders to jailbirds, drinkers to hard men, local legends to international wanderers. The Rough Guide to Cult Football looks at everything from special clubs - like the New York Cosmos and Berwick Rangers - to managers and football rivalries - from 'El Clásico' to the Faroe Islands derby, via an unusual roll-call of talent that stretches from Ferenc Puskas to Stan Bowles, Eric Cantona to Jose Chilavert and Garrincha to Perry Groves. It also recalls extraordinary games, from 'The Battle of Highbury' to underdog fixtures where the likes of Northern Ireland, Wimbledon and Dynamo Kiev overcame the might of Spain, Liverpool and the Nazis. Post-match analyses of football culture, ephemera, science and some strange statistics, complete this ultimate fiesta of football fun.

The Jacobite Risings in Britain, 1689-1746

Author : Bruce Lenman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Jacobite Risings in Britain, 1689-1746 written by Bruce Lenman and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jacobitism (Irish: Seacaibíteachas, Scottish Gaelic: Seumasachas) refers to the political movement in Great Britain and Ireland to restore the Roman Catholic Stuart King James II of England and his heirs to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland. The movement took its name from Jacobus, the Latinised form of James, and refers to a long series of Jacobite risings between 1688 and 1746. After James II was deposed in 1688 and replaced by his daughter Mary II, ruling jointly with her husband and first cousin (James's nephew) William III, the Stuarts lived in exile, occasionally attempting to regain the throne. The strongholds of Jacobitism were the Scottish Highlands, Ireland and Northern England. Some support also existed in Wales."--Wikipedia.

Battlescapes

Author : Ian D Rotherham
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399066153
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Battlescapes written by Ian D Rotherham and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study explores the landscapes and heritage of past conflicts along with defensive and offensive structures. Throughout history, nature – its resources, landscape and terrain – has shaped the tactics of warfare and determined its outcomes. From the medieval English Fens to the 20th century Iraqi Marsh Arabs, landscapes have fostered resistance and dissention. Harnessed by people under threat the landscape has influenced strategies and tactics. Water and wetland halted campaigns in the Florida Everglades and in the Franco-Prussian War of the late 1800s. In the Second World War the Dutch flooded the drained polders to halt the Nazi advance and in 1938 the Chinese nationalist forces breached the flood-dykes of the Yellow River to halt the Japanese advance. Mountain ranges and deserts have long provided landscapes for resistance fighters. From the former Yugoslavia to Afghanistan these gnarly battlescapes traverse time and space. Libyan fighters held off invading Italian forces by operating from the caves and valleys of the Green Mountains and the Welsh defended their mountainous principalities against the Angevin Normans. The landscapes and heritage of past conflicts, defensive and offensive structures, and much more are brough together in this comprehensive study.

1715

Author : Daniel Szechi
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300111002
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book 1715 written by Daniel Szechi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lacking the romantic imagery of the 1745 uprising of supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 has received far less attention from scholars. Yet the ’15, just eight years after the union of England and Scotland, was in fact a more significant threat to the British state. This book is the first thorough account of the Jacobite rebellion that might have killed the Act of Union in its infancy. Drawing on a substantial range of fresh primary resources in England, Scotland, and France, Daniel Szechi analyzes not only large and dramatic moments of the rebellion but also the smaller risings that took place throughout Scotland and northern England. He examines the complex reasons that led some men to rebel and others to stay at home, and he reappraises the economic, religious, social, and political circumstances that precipitated a Jacobite rising. Shedding new light on the inner world of the Jacobites, Szechi reveals the surprising significance of their widely supported but ultimately doomed rebellion.

I Never Knew That About Coastal England

Author : Christopher Winn
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473560675
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book I Never Knew That About Coastal England written by Christopher Winn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all love to be beside the seaside! Be it the crunch of the sand beneath your feet, or the promise of an unexplored rock pool that draws you to the sea, prepare to be whisked away by bestselling author Christopher Winn as you delve into the charming tales of England's coastline. Divided into eighteen chapters – one for each of the coastal counties in the UK – this book will entertain and illuminate, by casting new light on the many points of intrigue to be explored along 3000 miles of spectacularly diverse and historically rich English coast. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white line drawings, by Mai Osawa, this book makes the perfect companion for any seaside outing. You’ll find yourself exclaiming again and again – I never knew that!

The Christian Union

Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Christian Union written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Battles of the Jacobite Rebellions

Author : Jonathan Oates
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526735520
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Battles of the Jacobite Rebellions written by Jonathan Oates and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-01-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Oates examines in minute detail why the Jacobite forces posed such a threat to William and Mary, Queen Anne, and George I and II.” —Books Monthly Many books have been written about the Jacobite rebellions—the armed attempts made by the Stuarts to regain the British throne between 1689 and 1746—and in particular about the risings of 1689, 1715, 1719 and 1745. The key battles have been described in graphic detail. Yet no previous book has given a comprehensive military account of the campaigns in their entirety—and that is the purpose of Jonathan Oates’s new history. For over fifty years the Jacobites posed a serious threat to the governments of William and Mary, Queen Anne and George I and II. But they were unable to follow up their victories at Killiecrankie, Prestonpans and Falkirk, and the overwhelming defeat suffered by Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army when it confronted the Duke of Cumberland’s forces at Culloden in 1746 was decisive. The author uses vivid eyewitness testimony and contemporary sources, as well as the latest archaeological evidence, to trace the course of the conflict, and offers an absorbing insight into the makeup of the opposing sides, their leadership, their troops and the strategy and tactics they employed. His distinctive approach gives the reader a long perspective on a conflict which is often viewed more narrowly in terms of famous episodes and the careers of the leading men. “A novel and rewarding approach in providing a comprehensive account of the Jacobite rebellions. This is a story of a family torn apart by religion and entitlement. Highly Recommended.” —Firetrench

Bloody Preston

Author : Stephen Bull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Preston written by Stephen Bull and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rebel Suffragette

Author : Beverley Adams
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526773910
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Rebel Suffragette written by Beverley Adams and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suffragette movement swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Led by the Pankhurst’s, the focus of the movement was in London with demonstrations and rallies taking place across the capital. But this was a nationwide movement with a strong northern influence with Edith Rigby being an ardent supporter. Edith was a controversial figure, not only was she was the first woman to own and ride a bicycle in her home town but she was founder of a school for girls and young women. Edith followed the example of Emmeline Pankhurst and her supporters and founded the Preston branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union. She was found guilty of arson and an attempted bomb attack in Liverpool following which she was incarcerated and endured hunger strike forming part of the ‘Cat and Mouse’ system with the government. During a political rally with Winston Churchill Edith threw a black pudding at a MP. There are many tales to tell in the life of Edith Rigby, she was charismatic, passionate, ruthless and thoroughly unpredictable. She was someone who rejected the accepted notion of what a woman of her class should be the way she dressed and the way she ran her household but she was independent in mind and spirit and always had courage in her own convictions. As a suffragette, she was just as effective and brave as the Pankhurst women. This is the story of a life of a lesser known suffragette. This is Edith’s story.

A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author : H. T. Dickinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470998873
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain written by H. T. Dickinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative Companion introduces readers to the developments that lead to Britain becoming a great world power, the leading European imperial state, and, at the same time, the most economically and socially advanced, politically liberal and religiously tolerant nation in Europe. Covers political, social, cultural, economic and religious history. Written by an international team of experts. Examines Britain's position from the perspective of other European nations.