Memoirs of a Cavalier

By: Defoe, Daniel

Book Excerpt: scription of the Scots troops in the beginning of the war, andthe behaviour of the party under the Earl of Holland, who went overagainst them, are admirable; and his censure of their conduct, whopushed the king upon the quarrel, and then would not let him fight, isno more than what many of the king's friends (though less knowing assoldiers) have often complained of.In a word, this work is a confutation of many errors in all thewriters upon the subject of our wars in England, and even in thatextraordinary history written by the Earl of Clarendon; but theeditors were so just that when, near twenty years ago, a personwho had written a whole volume in folio, by way of answer to andconfutation of Clarendon's "History of the Rebellion," would haveborrowed the clauses in this account, which clash with that history, and confront it, --we say the editors were so just as to refuse them.There can be nothing objected against the general credit of this work, seeing its truth is established upon universalRead M

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798718857689
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"