On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the
Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is
often regarded as his finest hour - but the aftermath, the forced
march of 5,000 prisoners from the battlefield to Durham, was one of
the cruellest episodes in his career. The march took them seven
days, without food and with little water, no medical care, the
property of a ruthless regime determined to eradicate any
possibility of further threat. Those who survived long enough to
reach Durham found no refuge, only pestilence and despair.
Exhausted, starving and dreadfully weakened, perhaps as many as
1,700 died from typhus and dysentery. Those who survived were
condemned to hard labour and enforced exile in conditions of
virtual slavery in a harsh new world across the Atlantic.
Cromwell's Convicts describes their ordeal in detail and, by using
archaeological evidence, brings the story right up to date. John
Sadler and Rosie Serdiville describe the battle at Dunbar, but
their main focus is on the lethal week-long march of the captives
that followed. They make extensive use of archive material, retrace
the route taken by the prisoners and describe the recent
archaeological excavations in Durham which have identified some of
the victims and given us a graphic reminder of their fate.
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