Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the First Edition. With Elucidations, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1859 - Great Britain |
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... Enemy at Passage . PAGE 409 66 LXXXII . To the 1649-50 66 66 16 same Castletown , 15 Feb. , 413 New Campaign : Reduction of many places in Tippe- rary and the Southwest . LXXXIII . To President Bradshaw : Cashel , 5 March , 1649-50 ...
... Enemy at Passage . PAGE 409 66 LXXXII . To the 1649-50 66 66 16 same Castletown , 15 Feb. , 413 New Campaign : Reduction of many places in Tippe- rary and the Southwest . LXXXIII . To President Bradshaw : Cashel , 5 March , 1649-50 ...
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... enemy suddenly gone south- ward . BATTLE OF WORCESTER LETTER CXXIII . To Hon . W. Lenthall : near Worcester , 66 3 Sept. , 1651 Battle of Worcester . The same . PAGE 541 · 543 · 544 · 549 • 552 • CXXIV . To the same : Worcester , 4 Sept ...
... enemy suddenly gone south- ward . BATTLE OF WORCESTER LETTER CXXIII . To Hon . W. Lenthall : near Worcester , 66 3 Sept. , 1651 Battle of Worcester . The same . PAGE 541 · 543 · 544 · 549 • 552 • CXXIV . To the same : Worcester , 4 Sept ...
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... enemy of near 100 horse . Our dragooners labored to beat them back ; but not alighting off their horses , the enemy charged them , and § iii . , 138 . made them retire under their main body . We advanced 138 [ 31 July , PART II . FIRST ...
... enemy of near 100 horse . Our dragooners labored to beat them back ; but not alighting off their horses , the enemy charged them , and § iii . , 138 . made them retire under their main body . We advanced 138 [ 31 July , PART II . FIRST ...
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... enemy's horse facing us , at about a musket - shot or less distance ; and a good Reserve of a full regiment of horse behind it . We endea- vored to put our men into as good order as we could . The enemy in the meantime advanced towards ...
... enemy's horse facing us , at about a musket - shot or less distance ; and a good Reserve of a full regiment of horse behind it . We endea- vored to put our men into as good order as we could . The enemy in the meantime advanced towards ...
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... enemy's fresh horse , and by several removes got off without the loss of one man ; the enemy following the rear with a great body . The honor of this retreat is due to God , as also all the rest . Major Whalley did in this carry himself ...
... enemy's fresh horse , and by several removes got off without the loss of one man ; the enemy following the rear with a great body . The honor of this retreat is due to God , as also all the rest . Major Whalley did in this carry himself ...
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afterwards arms Army Baillie Berwick called Captain Castle Colonel command Committee Commons Journals Covenant Crom Cromwell's desire divers dragoons Duke Earl Edinburgh Edinburgh Castle Enemy Enemy's England Esquire Essex Fairfax fight foot forces Garrison Gentlemen give God's Governor Hamilton Hammond hand hath heart Hill hope horse House humble servant Huntingdon Hursley Ireland Ireton King King's Kingdom Kingdom of England Kingdom of Scotland Lancashire Letter Lieutenant-General London Lord Majesty Mayor ment mercy miles Monday morning Newspapers in Cromwelliana night Noble Officers OLIVER CROMWELL Oliver's Parliament Parliament of England Party persons poor Presbyterian present Preston prisoners Puritan quarters reader regiment rest Right Honorable Robert Robert Hammond Royalist Rushworth Saffron Walden Scotch Scotland Scots sent Sir Thomas Fairfax soldiers Sprigge storm thereof things thou Town Treaty troops Tulchan unto Whalley Whitlocke William Lenthall
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Page 437 - The Lord said unto my Lord : Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion : rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power ; in the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning : thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Page 448 - Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of God, all that you say? I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Page 188 - NOT UNTO us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
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Page 97 - You know what my manner of life hath been. Oh, I lived in and loved darkness, and hated the light. I was a chief, the chief of sinners.
Page 542 - And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields: shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife ? a,9 thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
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