tailieunhanh - Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield

To Edge Hill from Banbury a good road trends gradually up hill nearly the whole way. It rises from the 300 foot level of the Cherwell Vale to 720 at the highest ground of the ridge of the hill. At a distance of eight miles to the North-West is the edge or escarpment of high ground bounded on the East side by the vale of a tributary of the Cherwell, and on the North and West by the plain drained by the tributaries of the Avon. From Warmington, six miles from Banbury, North-Westwards to the point marked on the Ordnance Map as Knowle End, and. | Edge Hill by Edwin Walford 1 Edge Hill by Edwin Walford The Project Gutenberg EBook of Edge Hill by Edwin Walford This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield Author Edwin Walford Release Date June 24 2010 EBook 32958 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EDGE HILL Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http . Illustration THE TOWER EDGE HILL. EDGE HILL THE BATTLE AND BATTLEFIELD. WITH Notes on Banbury Thereabout. BY EDWIN A. WALFORD . Edge Hill by Edwin Walford SECOND EDITION. 2 Banbury E. A. WALFORD 71 72 HIGH STREET. London CASTLE LAMB STORR SALISBURY SQUARE. 1904. Preface to Edition 1904. For the present edition the available material of the last eighteen years has been consulted but the plans of battle are similar to two of those of my book of 1886. They were then the first series of diagrammatic representations of the fight published but in no case has this been acknowledged in the many plans of like kind subsequently published. Some new facts and inferences the author hopes may increase the value of the account. The letters of Captain Nathaniel Fiennes and Captain Kightley now added may serve to make the tale a more living one. They are reproduced by the kind courtesy of the authorities of the Radcliffe Library Oxford and the Birmingham Reference Library. New pages of Notes on Banbury and an extended bibliography are also given. EDWIN A. WALFORD. Banbury March 1904. Preface to First Edition. In the following pages an endeavour has been made to give a concise account of the physical features of the Edge Hill district as well as to describe the events of the first great battle of the Civil War with which it is so .