02.36 - The War of Three Kingdoms
Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire
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The King's War With the Confederates
Those eight thousand men who did make it across the sea were far less useful than their raw numbers suggest. Many of these soldiers had been locked in a brutal war for years against the confederacy and the rebellion. The king's truce with those confederates was an outrage, even for those who understood charles's larger perspective that after his victory in england he could send them back to exact justice on the rebels. In one of the first major actions of 16 forty four, lord byron took his army and besieged the town of nantwich in cheshire. With this com in force, they would march south and force byron off nantwich.
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