 | Samuel Bannister Harding, William Fletcher Harding - 1909 - 402 Seiten
...and his Ironsides did especial service. " It had all the evidence," Cromwell wrote after the battle, "of an absolute victory, obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the godly party. We never charged but that we routed the enemy. God made them as stubble to our swords." PART OF CROMWELL'S... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1910 - 1130 Seiten
...in the other parts of the field. The result was decisive. "It had all the evidence," wrote Cromwell, "of an absolute victory, obtained by the Lord's blessing...principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. God made them as stubble to our swords." All the north of England, except a few fortresses, fell into... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1911 - 330 Seiten
...to parliament, and in most of his letters to his friends. After the battle of Marston Moor he wrote: "It had all the evidences of an absolute victory obtained...upon the Godly party principally. We never charged them but we routed the enemy. r-. . God made them as stubble to our swords." In reporting the capture... | |
 | John Willcock - 1913 - 470 Seiten
...Marston Moor is claimed for the Independents, for so, at least, we may interpret his assertion that " it had all the evidences of an absolute victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the godly party principally."2 His distindtion between the " godly party " in the army and their present associates... | |
 | Estelle Ross - 1915 - 222 Seiten
...who had so large a share in the honours of the day. In a letter to Colonel Valentine Walton he says: "We never charged but we routed the enemy. The left...Prince's horse. God made them as stubble to our swords." On the blood-soaked, trampled corn over four thousand lay dead, among them Walton's young son. Cromwell... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1917 - 414 Seiten
...revised by SC Lomas. 3 vols. London, 1904. Methuen and Co. as the like never was since this war began. It had all the evidences of an absolute victory obtained...enemy. The left wing, which I commanded, being our own cavalry, except a few Scots in our rear, beat all the prince's cavalry. God made them as stubble to... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 472 Seiten
...Cromwell's own references to his first great battle are comprised in three or four well-known sentences : "It had all the evidences of an absolute victory, obtained by the Lord's blessing on the godly party principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. The left wing, which I commanded,... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 482 Seiten
...Cromwell's own references to his first great battle are comprised in three or four well-known sentences : "It had all the evidences of an absolute victory, obtained by the Lord's blessing on the godly party principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. The left wing, which I commanded,... | |
 | G. R. Stirling Taylor - 1928 - 376 Seiten
...from the Lord in this great victory given unto us, such as the like never was since this war began. It had all the evidences of an absolute victory obtained...being our own horse, saving a few Scots in our rear, bent all the Prince's horse. God made them as stubble to our swords. ... I believe of twenty thousand... | |
 | J. R. Tanner - 1928 - 332 Seiten
...to save the Presbyterian Scots from being swept away. "It had all the evidence", he wrote on July 5, "of an absolute victory obtained by the Lord's blessing...principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy, . . .God made them as stubble to our swords".1 The majorities in Parliament and the Assembly might... | |
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It had all the evidences of an absolute victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the godly party principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. The left wing which I commanded, being our own horse, saving a few Scots in our rear, beat all... 
