Cromwell's Battle of Dunbar

The battle of dunbar was probably cromwell's finest hour. The scots left three thousand dead on the field, while another ten thousand were captured. Leslie and his senior command retreated to stirling, but only four thousand men re rallied to their banner. By the eighteenth cromwell himself was at stirling and was preparing to besiege the city when he thought better of it and decided to return to edinburgh instead. He took pains while in scotland to assure civilians that he meant them no harm and encourage them to resume their normal economic routines. In the post de boccl an association of west scottish counties where the religious covenanters were strongest promised