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Roundhead

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Roundhead
English history a supporter of Parliament against Charles I during the Civil War


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The author shows how gunpowder and gun technology in the 17th century affected the military logistics of the Cavaliers and Roundheads, and uses examples from battles at Basing, Pontefract Castle, Gloucester and Lathom to reinforce his points.
Cavaliers and Roundheads put their differences to one side to celebrate this wedding with a difference at Heaton, in Newcastle, in July 1979.
King Charles was a captive but John Poyner, the eccentric mayor of Pembroke, suddenly switched sides to the Royalists, joined by the celebrated Roundhead warrior Major General Laugharne, who had clobbered the Cavaliers in Cardiff two years before.
 
 
 
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