Download or read book Cromwell s Convicts written by John Sadler and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cromwell's Convicts not only describes the Battle of Dunbar but concentrates on the grim fate of the soldiers taken prisoner after the battle. On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar – a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour – but the aftermath, the forced march of 5,000 prisoners from the battlefield to Durham, was one of the cruellest episodes in his career. The march took them seven days, without food and with little water, no medical care, the property of a ruthless regime determined to eradicate any possibility of further threat. Those who survived long enough to reach Durham found no refuge, only pestilence and despair. Exhausted, starving and dreadfully weakened, perhaps as many as 1,700 died from typhus and dysentery. Those who survived were condemned to hard labour and enforced exile in conditions of virtual slavery in a harsh new world across the Atlantic. Cromwell's Convicts describes their ordeal in detail and, by using archaeological evidence, brings the story right up to date. John Sadler and Rosie Serdiville describe the battle at Dunbar, but their main focus is on the lethal week-long march of the captives that followed. They make extensive use of archive material, retrace the route taken by the prisoners and describe the recent archaeological excavations in Durham which have identified some of the victims and given us a graphic reminder of their fate.
Download or read book Cremonello written by Marco Edmundi and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Cromwell would become England's most powerful and revered politician until his rapid downfall in 1540, but he grew up in a shattered family during the most brutal period of history, starting from Sir Robert Cromwell's cruel 1461 death in England's bloodiest ever battle during the Wars Of The Roses. His family then suffers four generations of misfortune and violence before Thomas is born.As Cromwell suffers a traumatic boyhood, King Henry VII has just ended the reign of Richard III at the 1485 Battle Of Bosworth, thanks to thousands of extra Flemish mercenary soldiers that Henry could hire using vast loans, which he secures from the bank run by Lorenzo de Medici in Florence. Sixteen years on from Bosworth, Cromwell finds himself as a soldier in this same Flemish mercenary brigade. The influence on English rulers by the Medici Bank and other wealthy Italian families, like the Lomellini and the Frescobaldi, has existed for over a hundred years, not just in London. Daughters are a political pawn to be traded like a shipload of quality Cotswold cloth. Sexual violence and infidelity are acceptable nearly everywhere, led by the most powerful monarchs, nobles or cardinals. But the story highlights two women who rise above this male cruelty: Maddalena de Medici and Valeria di Casentino.Cromwell thrives on the stages of Renaissance Europe. After his father's beatings, then prison and exile from England at the age of fifteen, he is the ultimate survivor. When cornered he is a vicious killer as he travels through France and Italy with the Flemish mercenary brigade and fights with Cesare Borgia and then the French, as they try to regain Naples. He is captured and tortured by the victorious Spanish before being sold into slavery. Escaping to Florence, he finds furtive but life-changing love with Maddalena, the daughter of Lorenzo de Medici, who is twelve years older and locked in a miserable arranged marriage to the vile son of a pope. The lovers liaise in the threatened world of the Medici's finest Tuscan homes, assisted by Madam Valeria, herself an illegitimate Medici daughter and the owner of Rome's finest salon for gaming and courtesans.Cromwell matures fast into a respected merchant and envoy for the Frescobaldi Company in Venice. But he never knows if he can return as a free man to England. And two bitter enemies pursue him - Bartolomeo D'Alviano, a mercenary general, maimed by Cromwell in a battle for French control of Naples; and Angelo Lomellini, the fiendish Genoa gang leader, from whom Cromwell ruthlessly extracts a long-overdue Frescobaldi debt. Returning to England as Cremonello after seven years in exile, he has fathered Maddalena's son. But he must still evade his enemies and consider a tempting but treasonous offer by Florentine politician Machiavelli. He also now controls Valeria's momentous secret archive, which could change the religious and political landscape across the whole of Europe forever. This is the untold story of Cromwell's early life, with startling conclusions and unique insights on the dynamics between a turbulent England and a volatile Renaissance Italy."This novel is set during one of my favourite times in history. I love the espionage, intrigue and evil of the Medici. I love the excesses and the indulgences of the time. There is a wonderful duality of perversion and propriety that makes for fascinating tales. The author obviously shares my interest in the time and has a fantastic sense of the history." - Independent Critic and former Commissioning Editor
Download or read book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century written by Ruth Ahnert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of writings penned by early modern prisoners, including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt.
Download or read book The Smugglers World written by Jesse Cromwell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smugglers' World examines a critical part of Atlantic trade for a neglected corner of the Spanish Empire. Testimonies of smugglers, buyers, and royal officials found in Venezuelan prize court records reveal a colony enmeshed in covert commerce. Forsaken by the Spanish fleet system, Venezuelan colonists struggled to obtain European foods and goods. They found a solution in exchanging cacao, a coveted luxury, for the necessities of life provided by contrabandists from the Dutch, English, and French Caribbean. Jesse Cromwell paints a vivid picture of the lives of littoral peoples who normalized their subversions of imperial law. Yet laws and borders began to matter when the Spanish state cracked down on illicit commerce in the 1720s as part of early Bourbon reforms. Now successful merchants could become convict laborers just as easily as enslaved Africans could become free traders along the unruly coastlines of the Spanish Main. Smuggling became more than an economic transaction or imperial worry; persistent local need elevated the practice to a communal ethos, and Venezuelans defended their commercial autonomy through passive measures and even violent political protests. Negotiations between the Spanish state and its subjects over smuggling formed a key part of empire making and maintenance in the eighteenth century.
Download or read book The True Story of Andersonville Prison written by James Madison Page and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. "The True Story of Andersonville Prison" represents an important narrative of Andersonville prison in Georgia. The author brings his defense of the prison commander Henry Wirz, who was charged by the U.S. Government and executed after the Civil War. The author's description of the trial, conviction, and execution of Wirz is extremely sympathetic and provides an alternative view of the Confederacy in the Civil War.
Download or read book The Confessions of a Convict written by Julian Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The True Story of Andersonville Prison written by James Madison Page and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Andersonville Prison's commandant during the U.S. Civil War, Confederate Major Henry Wirz, who was arrested and later found guilty on war crimes charges for allowing inhumane conditions and treatment of prisoners of war at the prison.
Download or read book Legislative Record of the State of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fugitive Man written by Robert K. Cromwell and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2016 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all seen how the criminal justice system is portrayed on TV. From NCIS and Law & Order to White Collar and Cops, were led to believe that we know how the system works. But how much do we really know about what goes on?
Download or read book The New York Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Prisoner King written by John Matusiak and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about Charles I’s reign, about the brutal civil war into which his pursuit of unfettered power plunged the realm, and about the Commonwealth regime that followed his defeat and execution. His reign is one that shaped the future of the British monarch, and his legacy still remains with us today.After more than half a century of comparative neglect, The Prisoner King provides a new and much needed re-examination of the crucial period encompassing Charles I’s captivity after his surrender to the Scots at Newark in May 1646. Not only were the subsequent months before his trial a time when the human dimension of the king’s predicament assumed unparalleled intensity, they were also a critical watershed when the entire nation stood at the most fateful of crossroads.For Charles himself, as subterfuge, espionage and assassination rumours escalated on all fronts, escape attempts foundered, and tensions with his absent wife mounted agonisingly, the test was supreme. Yet, in a painful passage involving both stubborn impenitence and uncommon fortitude in the face of ‘barbarous usage’ by his captors, the ‘Man of Blood’ would ultimately come to merit his unique place in history as England’s ‘martyr king’.
Download or read book Crimes Criminals of 17th Century Britain written by Daniel J. Codd and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think the world is bad today? Then take a true-crime trip back in time to 1600s England, where violence, robbery, and cold-blooded murder ran amuck. These days, criminals and evildoers are stopped, caught, and punished every day. But how did people deal with crimes before the police, computer records, and a consistent judicial system even existed? Here are the stories of some of the most heinous, shocking, and unbelievable transgressions of the law in seventeenth century England, raising questions such as . . . Which murderer committed an atrocity at an East End brothel in 1691? What superstitions lay behind the unfathomable slaughter of three innocent children at a remote farmhouse in County Durham in 1683? When was a parish constable murdered in cold blood by a party of men that allegedly included the illegitimate son of King Charles II? Where did deadly confrontations occur between supporters and opponents of King James II during the so-called Bloodless Revolution of 1688? These cases, and many more, are explored in depth, harkening back to a time of witch hunts, dueling, and political assassinations, when the punishment for killing one’s fellow man was either more barbaric than the crime itself, or corruptly lenient. Illustrated throughout and shedding a unique light on the era, Crimes & Criminals of 17th Century Britain is the first work of its kind to explore the monstrous murders that occurred at a time when the nation was repeatedly plunged into chaos.
Download or read book Cromwell was Framed written by Tom Reilly and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of "Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy" fifteen years ago sparked off a storm of controversy with many historians publically deriding the divisive and groundbreaking study. Dissatisfied with the counter-explanations of these seventeenth-century experts concerning Cromwell’s complicity in war crimes in Ireland, amateur historian Tom Reilly now throws down the gauntlet to his critics and issues a challenge to professional historians everywhere. In this entirely fresh work Reilly tackles his academic detractors head-on with original and radical insights. Breaking the mould of the genre, for the first time ever, the author publishes the actual contemporary documents (usually the privileged preserve of historians) so the authentic primary source documents can be interpreted at first hand by the general reader, without prejudice. Among the author’s fresh discoveries is the revelation of the identity of two (unscrupulous) contemporary individuals who, after exhaustive research, seem to be personally responsible for creating the myth that Cromwell deliberately killed unarmed men, women and children at both Drogheda and Wexford, and that a 1649 London newspaper reported that Cromwell’s penis had been shot off at Drogheda. Whatever your view on Cromwell, this book is persuasive. Conventional wisdom is challenged. Lingering myths are finally dispelled.
Download or read book License to Convict written by Carroll Multz and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morrey Dexter wasn't used to losing. As a district attorney in Paraiso County, Colorado, Morrey owned the courtroom. Morrey was dauntless in his quest to seek justice, committed to his sense of fairness, and vigilant in his role as a protector of the community. With the help of his friends and the support of his family, Morrey's future seemed clear. But when a surprising verdict shakes his faith in the system, he begins to see that things are not as simple as they appear. As the challenges of Paraiso County mount, Morrey is forced to put his own reputation on the line to face corruption within a system he thought he understood. Meanwhile, political realities force tough questions without easy answers. His quest will take him to the highest levels of government. Can Morrey use his "License to Convict" to preserve the things he holds sacred?
Download or read book Offenders on Offending written by Wim Bernasco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses the issue of assessing the reliability of information about crime from offenders, taking stock of the various methods used to elicit information on offending from offenders and collecting useful information on criminal behaviour.
Download or read book The Mirror the Light written by Hilary Mantel and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to the breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform. But as fortune’s wheel turns, Cromwell’s enemies are gathering in the shadows. The inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze? Eagerly awaited and eight years in the making, The Mirror & the Light completes Cromwell’s journey from self-made man to one of the most feared, influential figures of his time. Portrayed by Mantel with pathos and terrific energy, Cromwell is as complex as he is unforgettable: a politician and a fixer, a husband and a father, a man who both defied and defined his age.
