Episode Ten - Monk and the Conquest of Scotland

Monk was one of the few soldiers actually shipped over to deal with the irish rebellion, before preparations for the first civil war kept everyone else at home. After fighting off and on for the next few years, he suddenly found himself isolated by the execution of charles which galvanized the enemies of parliament in ireland. He then resigned his commission when his health gave out but wound up getting named one of the three generals at sea for the anglo dutch war. When cromwell inherited the problem in 16 53 there were a lot of ious floating around out there. So that's the career of general monk up to this point, right? O, wait, no. It