Contents Vol 2

Chapter 1 Langport and Bridgewater

His 'Crowning Mercy' - speed of advance - masterful tactics - Clubmen appear - the destruction of Bridgewater

Chapter 2 Sherborne and Bristol

Grand Strategy - the importance of Naval support - a night assault - the General retires to Bath and is joined by his wife

Chapter 3 Exeter

The straitening of Exeter - Tiverton Castle's drawbridge - Ottery St Mary - a 'new disease' strikes the Army - Fairfax's letter to Prince Charles - the Prince's angry rejection

Chapter 4 Dartmouth and Torrington

Snow in the south-west - Assault on the deep-water port of Dartmouth - Fairfax is generous to his prisoners - night assault on Torrington - the explosion at the 14th century Church of St Michael

Chapter 5 The Western War

Navigation - the taking of Launceston - winning hearts and minds - Blisland, Bodmin and Truro - the surrender at Tresillian Bridge - Exeter and Barnstaple surrender  See Gallery 2/1

Chapter 6 Oxford

Three parts of it surrounded by water - Anne joins him - the King has no court, his reign is at an end - Fairfax and Bulstrode Whitelocke work hard to preserve the libraries and colleges.

Chapter 7 1646

His father re-marries - disbanding Massey's Brigade - the funeral of the Earl of Essex - another 'sore fit of the stone' - both Houses of Parliament visit him in London

Chapter 8 1647

How to deal with a defeated King - Levellers and Agitators - Cornet Joyce - Triploe Heath and Corkbush Field - the Army occupies London - Fairfax threatens to resign.

Chapter 9 That Man of Blood

The Commons have no further business with the King - the death of Ferdinando - Fairfax leads the attack on Maidstone with his foot wrapped in bandages - the sheer speed of his advance pins the Royalists in Colchester - lines of circumvallation - the New Model salute the local militia.