03.10 - 'A Crowning Mercy' - the Final Battle of Worcester

After Oliver Cromwell's victory at Dunbar, the English forces
hunker down in Edinburgh for winter. The Scots almost come to civil
war between supporters of Charles II and the remaining Kirk
Faction. After the Battle of Inverkeithing, English occupation of
Scotland appears inevitable, and so Charles II proposes a bold
strategy - leave Scotland, and march the length of England to
capture London. For this episode, I found the following
publications particularly useful: Philip Baker, 'The Regicide', in
Michael J. Braddick. The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
Ian Gentles, The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three
Kingdoms, 1638-1652. Alexia Grosjean, Steve Murdoch, Alexander
Leslie and the Scottish generals of the Thirty Years' War,
1618-1648 Steve Murdoch (ed), Scotland and the Thirty Years' War
Stuart Reid, Crown, Covenant, and Cromwell: The Civil Wars in
Scotland, 1639-1651. Nick Lipscombe, The English Civil War: An
Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms,
1639-51. Edward Cowan, Montrose: For Covenant and King. Barry
Robertson, Royalists at War in Scotland and Ireland, 1638-1650.
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