Cromwell Against the Scots: The Last Anglo-Scottish War 1650-1652 (Revised edition)

Cromwell’s decisive campaigns against Scotland reveal how the conflict reshaped the kingdoms, forging a lasting, postwar balance that defined British politics.

Although also known as the Third English Civil War, the author makes it clear that this was the last war between the Scots and English as separate states. He narrates in detail the the events following the exiled King Charles II’s landing in Scotland and his alliance with the Scots Covenanters, erstwhile allies of the English Parliame...