Second Hand Cheriton 1644
The Campaign & the Battle
Series : Battles and Campaigns of the English Civil War
Author : John Adair
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Condition
Very good in good dust jacket. The jacket shows light shelf wear, rubbing, faint marks and mild age-related discolouration, with slight wear along the edges and at the spine ends.
The boards appear clean and the binding is firm and secure. The page edges show light age-toning and occasional minor spotting. Internally, the pages are generally clean and unmarked, and the colour frontispiece, black-and-white plates, maps and diagrams present well.
Details
General - Pages : 232 | Images : 28 plates, maps and campaign diagrams. | Publisher : The Roundwood Press | Place of Publication : Kineton, Warwickshire, UK | Language : English
Hardback - Year of Publication : 1973 | Edition : First edition | Size : 242mm x 162mm | ISBN : 0900093196
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A detailed account of the campaign culminating in the Battle of Cheriton, fought in Hampshire on 29 March 1644 during the English Civil War.
John Adair examines the strategic and political background to the campaign, including the opposing careers and armies of the Parliamentarian commander Sir William Waller and the Royalist commander Sir Ralph Hopton. The narrative covers the siege of Basing House, the capture of Farnham and Arundel, operations around Alton and the movements that brought the two armies together at Cheriton.
The battle itself is reconstructed through an examination of the Royalist and Parliamentarian forces, their deployments, command decisions and the course of the fighting. The volume also considers the aftermath and wider significance of the Parliamentarian victory.
The book includes contemporary accounts, background documents, details of Waller’s regiments, portraits, historical illustrations, battlefield views, campaign maps and tactical diagrams.
