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Reconstructing the New Model Army Volume 1 - Regimental Lists April 1645 to May 1649 (Paperback)
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Reconstructing the New Model Army Volume 1 - Regimental Lists April 1645 to May 1649 (Paperback)
Series: Century of the Soldier
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This book provides a full listing of the troop and company
commanders who served in the New Model Army during the first four
years of its existence. A second volume covering the final years of
the army's existence is currently very close to completion. It will
be published during 2016. This is the first time that the officer
corps of the New Model Army has been pieced together on such a
scale and with such an extensive range of source materials.
Unsurprisingly it corrects numerous errors to be found in more
general histories of the army. The book is therefore an essential
tool for studying the officer corps of the first English army in
which social status was not the prime pre-requisite for attaining a
senior military rank. Additionally, it is fully indexed and
referenced. This will allow readers, whether military historians,
local historians or family historians, to progress their particular
interests through further exploration of archival and printed
sources. In part one the data concerning the careers of troop and
company commanders is presented in the form of snapshots of the
army taken on six occasions between April 1645 and May 1649.
However, the information to be found in the very extensive
footnotes will enable the reader to create a highly accurate
reconstruction of the names of the troop and company commanders at
any date in that period. In part two a similar exercise is
conducted with respect to the junior commissioned officers. In
their case the surviving documentary evidence makes a complete
reconstruction impossible. It is, however, important that their
names are recorded as considerable numbers went on to serve as
troop and company commanders, and indeed field officers and
colonels, during the last ten years of the New Model Army's
existence. Finally, in appendix one regimental lists are presented
for the first time of the Earl of Essex's army at the time of its
incorporation into the New Model Army, thus complementing the work
of Laurence Spring on the New Model's other two progenitors, the
armies of the Earl of Manchester and Sir William Waller. The book
is not a new history of the New Model Army, but it does include
chapters on topics that are not addressed head-on in Ian Gentles,
The New Model Army 1645-1653 (1992). One examines the extent to
which the New Model Army was an English Army, an issue first raised
by Mark Stoyle in Soldiers and Strangers (Yale, 2005). Another
discusses the positions held by the officers before they became
troop or company commanders in the New Model Army, and the effect
this may have had on their subsequent military careers. A third
explores the circumstances under which officers left the army in
the period 1645-1649, whist a fourth questions the notion of
pinning numbers to the New Model Army regiments as was the practice
in the British Army of the late eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
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