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Author : David Stevenson
Release : 1981
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates by : David Stevenson
Download or read book Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates written by David Stevenson. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Professor of International History David Stevenson
Release : 2005-12-31
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Book Synopsis Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates by : Professor of International History David Stevenson
Download or read book Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates written by Professor of International History David Stevenson. This book was released on 2005-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Stevenson
Release : 2005-12
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates by : David Stevenson
Download or read book Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates written by David Stevenson. This book was released on 2005-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Scots, the men of the army the Scottish covenanters sent to Ireland, were the most formidable opponents of the Irish confederates for several crucial years in the 1640s, preventing them conquering all Ireland and destroying the Protestant plantation in Ulster. The greatest challenge to the power of the covenanters in Scotland at a time when they seemed invincible came from a largely Irish army, sent to Scotland by the confederates and commanded by the royalist marquis of Montrose. Thus the relations of Scotland and Ireland are clearly of great importance in understanding the complex 'War of the Three Kingdoms' and the interactions of the civil wars and revolutions of England, Scotland and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century. But though historians have studied Anglo-Scottish and Anglo-Irish relations extensively, Scottish-Irish relations have been largely neglected. Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates attempts to fill this gap, and in doing so provides the first comprehensive study of the Scottish Army in Ireland.
Author : Barry Robertson
Release : 2016-04-08
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Royalists at War in Scotland and Ireland, 1638–1650 by : Barry Robertson
Download or read book Royalists at War in Scotland and Ireland, 1638–1650 written by Barry Robertson. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing the make-up and workings of the Royalist party in Scotland and Ireland during the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century, Royalists at War is the first major study to explore who Royalists were in these two countries and why they gave their support to the Stuart kings. It compares and contrasts the actions, motivations and situations of key Scottish and Irish Royalists, paying particular attention to concepts such as honour, allegiance and loyalty, as well as practical considerations such as military capability, levels of debt, religious tensions, and political geography. It also shows how and why allegiances changed over time and how this impacted on the royal war effort. Alongside this is an investigation into why the Royalist cause failed in Scotland and Ireland and the implications this had for crown strategy within a wider British context. It also examines the extent to which Royalism in Scotland and Ireland differed from their English counterpart, which in turn allows an assessment to be made as to what constituted core elements of British and Irish Royalism.
Author : Pádraig Lenihan
Release : 2001
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49 by : Pádraig Lenihan
Download or read book Confederate Catholics at War, 1641-49 written by Pádraig Lenihan. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates the Confederate Catholic war effort from the preceeding phase of localized insurgency, through the formation of a national self-government in 1642, until the Confederate Catholic regime was finally subsumed in a broad pan-Royalist alliance in 1649. While this alliance held out the prospect of significant religious and constitutional concessons this achievement was nullified by the subsequent Cromwellian catastrophe: the Confederate regime failed. In attributing this failure to political factionalism, historians have neglected the potential and limitations of the Confederate war effort. This study does not substitute crude military determinism but acknowledges that political indecision and strategic incoherence inhibited the war effort at critical junctures. From the conflicting political priorities of Confederates two partially exclusive military strategies, insular, and expeditionary, can be identified. Both strategies were proactive and so demanded standing armies rather than local militia units. This book emphasizes the crucial importance of the tax gathering apparatus in fueling the incremental growth of standing armies. In the absence of large scale foreign patronage, exacting money from an agrarian economy, rather than the shortages of material, or still less, manpower representing the crucial extrinsic limit to Confederate military potential. Given these limits, it was a considerable achievement to contain two British interventions (in 1642 and 1646/7 respectively). The influence of the contemporaneous "military revolution" on the European mainland was mediated by the cadre of returned mercenary officers. Consequently, the Confederates developed a qualitative edge in fortification and siegecraft. The application of the continental model and the shift from putatively "celtic" or irregular tactics of raiding and running battles would be more problematic. This and other explanations for the poor battlefield performance of the Confederate armies are discussed.
