Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Bull, Stephen (1960-....)
Titre(s) : 'The furie of the ordnance' [Texte imprimé] : artillery in the English civil wars / Stephen Bull
Publication : Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2008
Description matérielle : xxiii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm
Collection : Armour and weapons ; v. 2
Lien à la collection : Armour and weapons
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index
Details how new developments in guns and artillery played a decisive role in the English
civil war
Sujet(s) : Artillerie -- Angleterre (GB) -- 17e siècle
Grande-Bretagne -- 1642-1651 (Guerre civile) -- Opérations d'artillerie
Indice(s) Dewey :
942.062 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Angleterre - 1625-1649
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781843834038. - ISBN 1843834030
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45790350m
Notice n° :
FRBNF45790350
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Of guns and gunners. Firing : 'the fury of the ordnance' ; 'England's vulcan' :
artillery supply under the early stuarts ; A scramble for arms : the war of ordnance
logistics. Supplying the long war ; Artillery fortifications ; Artillery and sieges.
Basing : sapper, siege fun and mortar in action ; Pontefract castle : the last Royalist
stronghold ; Gloucester : parliament stronghold ; Lanthom : 'northern court' ;
sea power and sieges ; Battle. Examples of battle : Edgehill ; Marston moor ; Conclusions
; Appendices. 1. Ordnance types 1634-1665 ; 2. Shot finds ; 3. The Parliamentarian
artillery train of 1642 ; 4. The establishment of the King's 'Trayne of Artillery,
' June 1643 ; 5. Equipment and personnel dispatched from Oxford, May 1643 ; 6. Ordnance
captures at Bristol ; 7. Artillery and officers of the New Model Army ; 8. The ideal
artillery train ; 9. The masters and officers of the Ordnance c. 1610-1660 ; 10.
Typical firing sequence.
