The furie of the ordnance : artillery in the English civil wars

The furie of the ordnance : artillery in the English civil wars

Artillery in the English civil wars|Pratiqve de la gverre

Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2008.

xxiii, 247 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.

623.41 B935 2008

(OCoLC)209770543

Contents: Of guns and gunners. Firing : 'the fury of the ordnance' -- 'England's vulcan' : artillery supply under the early stuarts -- A scramble for arms : the war of ordnance logistics. Supplying the long war -- Artillery fortifications -- Artillery and sieges. Basing : sapper, siege fun and mortar in action -- Pontefract castle : the last Royalist stronghold -- Gloucester : parliament stronghold -- Lanthom : 'northern court' -- sea power and sieges -- Battle. Examples of battle : Edgehill -- Marston moor -- Conclusions -- Appendices. 1. Ordnance types 1634-1665 -- 2. Shot finds -- 3. The Parliamentarian artillery train of 1642 -- 4. The establishment of the King's 'Trayne of Artillery, ' June 1643 -- 5. Equipment and personnel dispatched from Oxford, May 1643 -- 6. Ordnance captures at Bristol -- 7. Artillery and officers of the New Model Army -- 8. The ideal artillery train -- 9. The masters and officers of the Ordnance c. 1610-1660 -- 10. Typical firing sequence.|Details how new developments in guns and artillery played a decisive role in the English civil war.|Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-243) and index.|Some illustrations (no. 7, 8) from Malthus's "Pratique de la guerre ...," 1650 (call no. L2021F13 1650).|L2021M142

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