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The Armies of Sir Ralph Hopton - The Royalist Armies of the West 1642-46 (Paperback)
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The Armies of Sir Ralph Hopton - The Royalist Armies of the West 1642-46 (Paperback)
Series: Century of the Soldier
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Nothing sums up the tragedy of the English Civil War more than the
friendship between Sir Ralph Hopton and the parliamentarian general
Sir William Waller as "this war without an enemy." Hopton was one
of the first commanders to support the king and helped secure
Cornwall for the Royalist Cause. In fact Sir Ralph Hopton commanded
three armies during the Civil War; the first was made up of the
famous Cornish infantry, which would become the backbone of the
Royalist war effort in the West. This army was absorbed into Prince
Maurice's army after the fall of Bristol to the Royalists in July
1643. His second army was raised during the autumn of 1643 and was
disbanded to reinforce the King's Oxford Army after the battle of
Cheriton. Finally Hopton commanded the remnants of the royalist
army in the West during the death throes of the Royalist cause in
1646. By using contemporary sources this book describes the life,
and death, of a soldier during the Civil War. Chapters include
recruitment, clothing, equipping and training of Hopton's armies as
well as his campaigns, including those of Prince Maurice, Sir
Richard Grenville and George Lord Goring. It also looks at the
divisions within the royalist high command which ultimately lost
King Charles the war. It also looks at what happened to these
soldiers once the fighting was over.
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