'A Rabble of Gentility': The Royalist Northern Horse, 1644-45

by John Barratt

General George Monck once described the Royalist horse as "a rabble of gentility". Modern research has largely dispelled this image of the King's cavalry. However the description seems at first sight appropriate to the body of cavalry known as the "Northern Horse". Formed from those elements of the Marquis of Newcastle's Northern Royalist Army which elected to continue to fight after the crushing defeat at Marston Moor (2 July 1644) during the next...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911512986
• ISBN13: 9781911512981
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 9.7"