General Percy Kirke and the Later Stuart Army
General Percy Kirke (c. 1647-91) is remembered in Somerset as a cruel, vicious thug who deluged the region in blood after the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He is equally notorious in Northern Ireland. Appointed to command the expedition to raise the Siege of Londonderry in 1689, his assumed treachery...
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Abbreviations; Notes; Preface; Prologue; 1That lustful tribe of Kirkes; 2Beginnings; 3Promotion; 4Governor of Tangier; 5Enter Pepys; 6Monmouths Rebellion; 7The terrible Colonel Kirke; 8The Inglorious Revolution; 9Lough Foyle; 10Inching forward; 11Un homme capricieux; 12Ireland and Flanders, 1689-1691; Notes; Bibliography; Index