03.10 - 'A Crowning Mercy' - the Final Battle of Worcester

Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

After Oliver Cromwell's victory at Dunbar, the English forces hunker down in Edinburgh for winter. The Scots almost come to civil war between supporters of Charles II and the remaining Kirk Faction. After the Battle of Inverkeithing, English occupation of Scotland appears inevitable, and so Charles II proposes a bold strategy - leave Scotland, and march the length of England to capture London.

For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

• Philip Baker, 'The Regicide', in Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
• Ian Gentles, The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652.
• Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
• Steve Murdoch (ed), Scotland and the Thirty Years' War
• Stuart Reid, Crown, Covenant, and Cromwell: The Civil Wars in Scotland, 1639-1651.
• Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1639-51.
• Edward Cowan, Montrose: For Covenant and King.
• Barry Robertson, Royalists at War in Scotland and Ireland, 1638-1650.

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