The English Revolution and the wars in the three kingdoms, 1638-1652

CONTENTS Prologue 1: Rebellion in the North 2: The Irish Insurgency, 1641-2 3: The outbreak of civil war in England, 1640-42 4: Building and Fuelling the Machinery of War: Recruitment, Finance, Logistics 5: Popular Allegiance in the English Civil War 6: War in England: the first year, 1642-3 7: The hinge year: 1643-4 8: Hope revived: royalists counterattack, roundheads regroup, September 1644 - May 1645 9: The King Vanquished, 1645-6 10: The wars carried on by other means: the political struggles of 1646-1648 11: The War of the Engagement - 1648 12: Regicide and Republic 13: Ormond, Cromwell, the Levellers and Ireland 14: War between Scotlandand England, 1650-51 15: Audit of war: the human and material cost Epilogue