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   From: cequka@iprimus.com.au   
      
   "William Black"  wrote in message   
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   > "Raktizer Omheit"  wrote in message   
   > news:454ec049_1@news.iprimus.com.au...   
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   > . Oliver Cromwell's disciplined, well trained, well armed, well paid,   
   >> and highly motivated Puritan Army known as the Roundheads and the   
   >> Ironsides   
   >   
   > Modern research seems to indicate that they were mainly reluctant   
   > conscripts,  often recruited from  Royalist prisoners,  and they certainly   
   > were never regularly paid usually being about eighteen months in   
   > arrears...   
   >   
   > They don't seem to have been particularly Puritan either,  well,  not the   
   > infantry anyway...   
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   > William Black   
   >   
   William, the results speak for themselves, for Cromwell never lost a battle,   
   or at least he almost never did, which is far better than his enemies could   
   manage.   
      
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