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By Timothy Venning

ISBN-10: 1473827825

ISBN-13: 9781473827820

With hindsight, the victory of Parliamentarian forces over the Royalists within the English Civil warfare could appear inevitable yet this end result used to be no longer a foregone end. Timothy Venning explores a few of the turning issues and discusses how they could so simply have performed out another way. 
What if, for instance, Charles I had capitalized on his victory at Edgehill via attacking London right away? may this have ended the conflict in 1642? His genuine develop at the capital in 1643 failed yet got here with regards to inflicting a Parliamentarian cave in – how may possibly it have succeeded and what then? among the different situations, complete attention is given to the position of eire (what if Papal meddling had no longer avoided Irish Catholics helping Charles?) and Scotland (how could Montrose's Scottish loyalists have neutralized the Covenanters?). the writer analyses the believable percentages in every one thread, throwing mild at the position of probability and underlying components within the genuine final result, in addition to what may perhaps simply were different.

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