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Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton - who
had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army - later
described it as: 'as great a victory as hath been gained in any
part of the kingdom'. Fought on 18 September 1644 in mid-Wales,
Montgomery was the largest engagement in the Principality during
the First English Civil War of 1642 to 1646. In terms of numbers
engaged, in its outcome and impact, it was also a particularly
significant regional battle of the war. Notwithstanding its
importance, historians have largely overlooked Montgomery.
Consequently, it is rarely mentioned in studies of the mid-17th
century British Civil Wars. Moreover, where attention has been
accorded to the battle and the preceding campaign, both have often
been sketched over or misinterpreted. To fully explain the course
and context of events, The Battle of Montgomery, 1644: The English
Civil War in the Welsh Borderlands therefore presents the most
detailed reconstruction and interpretation of this important battle
published to date. An addition to Helion & Company's 'Century
of the Soldier' series, comprising titles breaking new ground in
exploring 17th-century military history, The Battle of Montgomery,
1644 similarly adopts a fresh approach. Making extensive use of
contemporary sources - many of which are referenced here for the
first time - the campaign, the armies and their commanders are
fully considered before the battle is investigated; here, because
the site has not been certainly located, the author uses fieldwork
and archival information to propose the most likely battlefield
before examining the course of the engagement in the context of
contemporary tactics and weaponry. While the battle is the main
subject, The Battle of Montgomery, 1644 also considers the wider
war in Northerly Wales and the North-West and West Midlands of
England - a region that remains underrepresented in Civil War
historiography. Extensively illustrated, including specially
commissioned artwork, The Battle of Montgomery, 1644 will be
welcomed by readers interested in the history of the British Civil
Wars; by living history enthusiasts of the period; by wargamers and
model makers; and by those curious about the history of Wales and
the English borderlands.
Its tercentenary is approaching, but the battle of Glenshiel is not
well known. Glenshiel: The Jacobite Rising in 1719 therefore takes
a fresh view of this curious and remarkable, but part-forgotten
engagement. It was fought on 10 June 1719, during the long daylight
hours of a summer evening in the mountainous western Highlands of
Scotland. Glenshiel was the main and decisive engagement of the
1719 Jacobite rising, the fourth attempt by supporters in Scotland
to restore the exiled house of Stuart to the throne of the Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland. Led by a disunited group of clan
chieftains and Scots notables returned from Continental exile, the
Highlanders forming most of the Jacobite army at Glenshiel opposed
forces of the government of King George I. These included regular
soldiers of the British Army, as well as contingents of Highlanders
loyal to the Georgian regime. With Scots fighting on both sides,
the 1719 rising was on one hand a civil war, a continuation of the
Jacobite wars, a protracted period of intermittent political and
armed conflict affecting the British Isles from the late
seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries; and on the other hand
was an extension of the wider European war of the Quadruple
Alliance, ranging the powers of Great Britain, France, the
Netherlands and Imperial Austria against Spain. For these reasons a
battalion of white-coated Spanish infantry fought beside Jacobite
clansmen at Glenshiel, while there were Dutch infantrymen in the
opposing ranks of the government army. Glenshiel today remains a
remote place with a natural grandeur surpassing any other
historically identified British battlefield. Historians have paid
much less attention to the 1719 rising than to the much
better-known rebellions of 1715-16 and 1745-46. Indeed, the fullest
account of the 1719 rising was published as long ago as 1895.
Glenshiel: The Jacobite Rising in 1719 therefore takes a new and
long overdue view of the subject. The background and course of the
rising is considered in detail, making use of published and
archival sources to reconstruct the likely course of events.
Chapters on the leading figures, and on the opposing armed forces,
place the battle of Glenshiel within the contexts of the Jacobite
period, and of early eighteenth-century European warfare.
Extensively illustrated, including specially commissioned artwork,
Glenshiel: The Jacobite Rising in 1719 will appeal to readers drawn
to the Jacobite period and to early eighteenth-century military
history, to readers generally interested in Scottish and British
history, and to the particular interests of model makers, wargamers
and living history enthusiasts.
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