The Bravest Battell

The Bravest Battell

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The Bravest Battell

Cheriton 1644 and the end of the Royalist winter campaign in Hampshire




Language:English
Format:Paperback
Dimensions:7" x 9.75"
Pages:144
Photos:8 color plates, 10 b/w ills, 5 maps
Publisher:Helion and Company
ISBN:9781912390977
Item No. 9781912390977



The battle of Cheriton, in March 1644, was a decisive yet unexpected defeat for the Hampshire detachment of King Charles’s ‘Oxford Army.' Despite starting the day in a strong position on high ground, by the end of it the Royalists had been decisively routed and had fled north towards Basing House, Oxford, and Reading. Charles had intended that in 1644 he would threaten the Parliament’s strongholds in London and the southeast, but after Cheriton he found himself on the back foot and fighting to keep Oxford – and indeed himself – from the dual clutches of Sir William Waller and the Earl of Essex. In this book Serena Jones reexamines the battle by revisiting in detail the numerous contemporary sources such as memoirs and printed newsbooks, and for the first time using drone images to view a critical section of the battlefield from above.