CROMWELL’S CONVICTS: THE DEATH MARCH FROM DUNBAR 1650.
Code: C234
Price: £14.99
Catalogue(s): Franklin
Category(s): New Books, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century,
240pp., 20 illus., P.B. 2026 reissue. 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.