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Naseby (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 6
rases, manners, were as yet common to both sides. On the battle-field, spies could pass undetected from one army to the other. At Edgehill, Chalgrove, and even Naseby, men and standards were captured and rescued, through the impossibility of distinguishing between the forces. An orange scarf, or a piece of white paper, was theweather, --when Vicars in Jehovah Jireh exults over the horrible maiming and butchery wrought by the troopers upon the officers' wives and female campfollowers at Naseby,--it is useless to attribute exaggeration to the other side. In civil war, even the most humane, there is seldom much opening for exaggeration,--the actual horroneralissimo of the army,--to rescue with unequalled energy Newark and York and the besieged heroine of Lathom House,to fight through Newbury and Marston Moor and Naseby, and many a lesser field,--to surrender Bristol and be acquitted by court-martial, but hopelessly condemned by the Kin ;--then to leave the kingdom, refusing a pa
Essex (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 6
he guns as they cut down the gunners, and, if any escape, it is because many in both armies wear the same red scarfs. One Puritan, surrounded by the enemy, shows such desperate daring that Rupert bids release him at last, and sends afterwards to Essex to ask his name. One Cavalier bends, with a wild oath, to search the pockets of a slain enemy ;--it is his own brother. O'Neal slays a standard-bearer, and thus restores to his company the right to bear a flag,--a right they lost at Hopton Heattiny of England, had the Earl of Bedford's first compromise with the country party succeeded, and Hampden become the tutor of Prince Clharles,--or could this fight at Chalgrove Field issue differently, and Hampden survive to be general instead of Essex, and Protector in place of Cromwell? But that may not be. Had I Hampden's earlier counsels prevailed, Rupert never would have ventured on his night foray; had his next suggestions been followed, Rupert never would have returned from it. Those
Bunker Hill (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
nts by exclaiming, To the fight! But here are no warrior-preachers, no bishops praying in surplices on the one side, no dark-robed divines preaching on horseback on the other, no king in glittering armor, no Tutor Harvey in peaceful meditation beneath a hedge, pondering on the circulation of the blood, with hotter blood flowing so near him; all these were to be seen at Edgehill, but not here. This smaller skirmish rather turns our thoughts to Cisatlantic associations; its date suggests Bunker's Hill,--and its circumstances, Lexington. For this, also, is a marauding party, with a Percy among its officers, brought to a stand by a half-armed and an angry peasantry. Rupert sends his infantry forward, to secure the bridge, and a sufficient body of dragoons to line the mile and a half of road between,--the remainder of the troops being drawn up at the entrance of a cornfield, several hundred acres in extent, and lying between the villages and the hills. The Puritans take a long circu
Chiltern Hills (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 6
uises. He was charged with all manner of offeltces, even to slaying children with cannibal intent, and only very carelessly disavowed such soft impeachments. But no man could deny that he was perfectly true to his word; he never forgot one whom he had promised to protect, and, if he had promised to strip a man's goods, he did it to the uttermost farthing. And so must his pledge of vengeance be redeemed to-night; and so, riding eastward, with the dying sunlight behind him and the quiet Chiltern hills before, through air softened by the gathering coolness of these midsummer eves, beside clover fields, and hedges of wild roses, and ponds white with closing water-lilies, and pastures sprinkled with meadow-sweet, like foam,--he muses only of the clash of sword and the sharp rattle of shot, and all the passionate joys of the coming charge. Iii. The foray. The long and picturesque array winds onward, crossing Chisellampton Bridge (not to be recrossed so easily), avoiding Thame with
Bedford, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
, of him who came not from courts or camps, but from the tranquil study of his Davila,--from that thoughtful retirement which was for him, as for his model, Coligny, the school of all noble virtues,--came to find himself at once a statesman and a soldier, receiving from his contemporary, Clarendon, no affectionate critic, the triple crown of historic praise, as being the most able, resolute, and popular person in the kingdom. Who can tell how changed the destiny of England, had the Earl of Bedford's first compromise with the country party succeeded, and Hampden become the tutor of Prince Clharles,--or could this fight at Chalgrove Field issue differently, and Hampden survive to be general instead of Essex, and Protector in place of Cromwell? But that may not be. Had I Hampden's earlier counsels prevailed, Rupert never would have ventured on his night foray; had his next suggestions been followed, Rupert never would have returned from it. Those failing, IHampden has come, gladly fo
Newark, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
43d as they return. And well may the Weekly Intelligencer say of him (June 27, 1643), that the memory of this deceased Colonel is such that in no age to come but it will more and more be had in honor and esteem; a man so religious, and of that prudence, judgment, temper, valor, and integrity, that he hath left few his like behind him. And we must leave Rupert to his career of romantic daring, to be made President of Wales and Generalissimo of the army,--to rescue with unequalled energy Newark and York and the besieged heroine of Lathom House,to fight through Newbury and Marston Moor and Naseby, and many a lesser field,--to surrender Bristol and be acquitted by court-martial, but hopelessly condemned by the Kin ;--then to leave the kingdom, refusing a passport, and fighting his perilous way to the seaside;--then to wander over the world for years, astonishing Dutchmen by his seamanship, Austrians by his soldiership, Spaniards and Portuguese by his buccaneering powers, and Frenchme
Bristol (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 6
to come but it will more and more be had in honor and esteem; a man so religious, and of that prudence, judgment, temper, valor, and integrity, that he hath left few his like behind him. And we must leave Rupert to his career of romantic daring, to be made President of Wales and Generalissimo of the army,--to rescue with unequalled energy Newark and York and the besieged heroine of Lathom House,to fight through Newbury and Marston Moor and Naseby, and many a lesser field,--to surrender Bristol and be acquitted by court-martial, but hopelessly condemned by the Kin ;--then to leave the kingdom, refusing a passport, and fighting his perilous way to the seaside;--then to wander over the world for years, astonishing Dutchmen by his seamanship, Austrians by his soldiership, Spaniards and Portuguese by his buccaneering powers, and Frenchmen by his gold and diamonds and birds and monkeys and richly liveried Blackamoors ;--then to reorganize the navy of England, exchanging characters with
Rupert (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
words, pole-axes, and petronels; this includes Rupert's own lifeguard of chosen men. Lord Wentworth,nd fifty dragoons, is commanded by Will Legge, Rupert's life-long friend and correspondent; and Herbof its own. No use for the King to hang two of Rupert's men for stealing, when their commander couldvation was a victory. To say, therefore, that Rupert's men never starved, is to say that they alway on foot, some on horseback. More and more of Rupert's men rush in; they fight through the stragglitreat,--treasures that otherwise no trooper of Rupert's would have spared: scarlet cloth, bedding, sse high-born, dissolute, reckless Cavaliers of Rupert's. I have seen them running up walls twenty fepikes of the London train-bands. Nor can even Rupert's men claim to monopolize the courage of the Kce is needed: the enemy are scattered, and, as Rupert's Cavaliers are dashing on, in their accustomeincidences in their lives. At the marriage of Rupert's mother, the student Hampden was chosen to wr
Cambria (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 6
he 90th Psalm as the mourners approach the tomb of the Hampdens, and the 43d as they return. And well may the Weekly Intelligencer say of him (June 27, 1643), that the memory of this deceased Colonel is such that in no age to come but it will more and more be had in honor and esteem; a man so religious, and of that prudence, judgment, temper, valor, and integrity, that he hath left few his like behind him. And we must leave Rupert to his career of romantic daring, to be made President of Wales and Generalissimo of the army,--to rescue with unequalled energy Newark and York and the besieged heroine of Lathom House,to fight through Newbury and Marston Moor and Naseby, and many a lesser field,--to surrender Bristol and be acquitted by court-martial, but hopelessly condemned by the Kin ;--then to leave the kingdom, refusing a passport, and fighting his perilous way to the seaside;--then to wander over the world for years, astonishing Dutchmen by his seamanship, Austrians by his soldi
Dorchester, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
his company the right to bear a flag,--a right they lost at Hopton Heath; Legge is taken prisoner and escapes; Urry proves himself no coward, though a renegade, and is trusted to bear to Oxford tle news of the victory, being raised to knighthood in return. For a victory of course it is. Nothing in England can yet resist these high-born, dissolute, reckless Cavaliers of Rupert's. I have seen them running up walls twenty feet high, said the engineer consulted by the frightened citizens of Dorchester; these defences of yours may possibly keep them out half an hour. Darlings of triumphant aristocracy, they are destined to meet with no foe that can match them, until they recoil at last before the plebeian pikes of the London train-bands. Nor can even Rupert's men claim to monopolize the courage of the King's party. The brilliant show-troop of Lord Bernard Stuart, comprising the young nobles having no separate command,--a troop which could afford to indulge in all the gorgeousness of d
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