CIVIL WARS OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

Warriors of the Seventeenth Century.

BY

GENERAL THE HON. SIR EDWARD CUST, D.C.L.

AUTHOR OF THE "ANNALS OF THE WARS."

'For to read History only for contemplation is a vain and idle pleasure, which
passeth away without fruit; but to imitate the virtue of those praised men
in it, is the true and public learning."-Icon Animorum.

PART I.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

Line Bend.

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

To his Nephew,

WILLIAM SPENCER BROWNLOW EGERTON CUST,

EARL BROWNLOW, &c. &c.

THE AUTHOR

DEDICATES THIS VOLUME,

WITH HIS MOST AFFECTIONATE REGARD.

"THEN, THEN, YE LAURELLED WARRIORS,

OUR FEAST AND SONG SHALL FLOW

TO THE FAME

OF YOUR NAME,

WHEN THE STORM HAS CEASED TO BLOW;

WHEN THE FIERY FIGHT IS HEARD NO MORE, AND THE STORM

HAS CEASED TO BLOW."

CAMPBELL.

Preface

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vii

PART I.

Introduction-Civil Wars of France and England

1611-1675. Henri de la Tour D'Auvergne, Vicomte de

Turenne, Marshal-General of France

1621-1686. Louis II. de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, a

French General

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5

129

1600-1649. King Charles the First, of Great Britain

1592-1646. Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, a Parlia-

mentary General

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271

PART II.

1619-1682. Prince Rupert Von Pfalz, an English Gene-

1611-1671. Sir Thomas Lord Fairfax, a General for the

Parliament

391

1612-1650. James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, a

1627-1629. The Huguenot Civil War

1582-1642. Robert Bertie, Earl of Lindsey, a Royalist

General

Alexander Leslie, Earl of Leven, Swedish Felt-Marshal,

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and General of the Scottish Covenanters' Army
Sir David Lesley, Lord Newark, a Commander for the

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