More Like Lions than Men: Sir William Brereton and the Cheshire Army of Parliament, 1642-46

Cheshire’s parliamentarian army, led by Sir William Brereton, emerges in this focused study as a seasoned, regionally decisive force whose recruitment, leadership and wartime logistics shaped the 1642–1646 campaign across the northwest and beyond.

Based on primary archival research (much of which remains unpublished), supported by field trips to battlefields and castles, More Like Lions than Men represents the first focused and sustained study of the recruitment, organisation, payment, equip...