Christopher L. Scott

Gebundenes Buch

The Maligned Militia

The West Country Militia of the Monmouth Rebellion, 1685

Beschreibung

Drawing upon private papers, letters, financial records, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 to assess the militia's performance in helping to defeat the 'pitchfork rebellion'. The study sets a benchmark for what could have been realistically expected of these part-time soldiers, and then sets this against the actual tasks that were asked of it. The results that emerge from this exercise paint a very different picture of the militia's role in the rebellion than has hitherto been accepted by historians.

Autor

Dr. Christopher L. Scott has been walking battlefields for over 30 years, analysing ground and tactics. He has taken numerous groups of enthusiasts around the battlefields of Britain, and three continents and in 2002 co-founded the International Guild of Battlefield Guides. Chris has lectured for the British Councils Organisation, was part of a British delegation to the Zulu War Centennial Ceremony and represented Great Britain at an International Congress of Historical Sciences. He has also lectured for the British Commission for Military History, The Historical Association and The Battlefields Trust for whom he is a Trustee. He is also a member of the Royal Historical Society, and gained his PhD in seventeenth-century military history at Cranfield University under Professor Richard Holmes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9781472437716
• ISBN-10: 1472437713
• Artikelnr.: 44636901