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Title: A shorter history of England and greater Britain
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Cross, Arthur Lyon, 1873-1940
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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le Charles established himself at Oxford, which he made his head-quarters during the remainder of the war. Before the close of theyear he made one more vain attempt to reach the capital; but hisfailure was counterbalanced by the success of Royalist forces in thesouthwest and the north. The Campaign of 1643. —The Royalists, in the campaign of 1643,again made London the objective point, planning to approach andsurround the City from three directions. The Earl of Newcastlewas to force his way from Yorkshire through the hostile eastern coun-ties and take up a position on the north bank of the Thames, a con-tingent from Devon and Cornwall was to march through the south-ern counties, occupy Kent, and thus threaten the City from that di-rection, while Charles, with the Oxford army recruited from Walesand the west Midlands, was to approach between them and com-plete the line of investment. But this well-devised plan, in spite ofsome preliminary successes, was frustrated mainly by the narrow
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80BMAY i CO.. FN9R/S. H.t. OUTBREAK OF CIVIL WAR TO EXECUTION OF CHARLES I 331 fears and selfishness of the local levies and the Parliamentary controlof the ports. The Yorkshiremen would not move from home whileHull remained in the hands of the enemy; the men of the south wereof the same mind about Plymouth, and Charles found it impossibleto lead his forces from the west until he had made an attempt to re-duce Gloucester, which commanded the navigation of the Severn. Newcastles Failure in the Eastern Counties. Cromwells Iron-sides.— During the spring and early summer Newcastle withhis northern army won for Charles practically the whole land from theScotch border to the Humber, except Hull. Then he led his unwill-ing forces into the counties of the Eastern Association, a districtwhich, because of its wealth and tough Puritan stock, formed thebackbone of the Parliamentary cause. Here Cromwell was laboringto organize a force of men of real ideals, strengthened by effectivedrill and hel

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