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FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY
Argyll & Monmouth’s Military Campaigns against
the Government of King James, 1685
Stephen M. Carter
‘This is the Century of the Soldier’, Fulvio Testi, Poet, 1641
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Text and maps © Stephen M. Carter, 2020
Photographs and illustrations © as individually credited
Colour artwork by Patrice Courcelle © Helion & Company 2020
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Cover: Soldier in Monmouth’s Regiment of Foot at Taunton, based on a spy report from Holland that ‘Mr
Hewling … It is he who tooke care of the making the purple coats, lined with red, for the souldiers that
shall be imployed in the Rebells service.’ See colour commentaries, plate D, for further details.
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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Dates, Names and Spellings
Notes on Military Discipline, Formations and Drill
Prologue: King’s Tyranny, 1684 and 1685
1. For Liberty, February to May 1685
2. First Blood, Early June 1685
3. Breaking Free, Late June 1685
4. Shot in the Dark, July 1685
5. King’s Revenge, July–December 1685
6. The Nature of War in 1685
7. Sedgemoor, a New Perspective
Appendix: Uniforms
Colour Plate Commentaries
Bibliography
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