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Hace 4 días · Sir William Waller, Parliamentary General, died on 19th September 1668 at Osterley House and was buried in the New (or Broadway) Chapel at Westminster, an overflow burial ground for St Margaret's Church Westminster. After the ravages of the plague more space was needed for burials in this parish but the only trace of this burial area is the ...
Key Significance. Waller served as soldier on the continent during the Thirty Years’ War, where he met Ralph Hopton. Although the two became good friends, ironically they became opponents in the campaign to control the south west of England, where Waller became the leading Parliamentarian commander during the First Civil War.
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William Waller. Sir William Waller, 1643. Sir William Waller (* um 1597; † 19. September 1668) war ein englischer Offizier während des Englischen Bürgerkriegs .
14 de nov. de 2019 · Nothing sums up the tragedy of the English Civil War more than the friendship between Sir William Waller and his opponent Sir Ralph Hopton as “this war without an enemy.”However, Waller was also a general respected by both sides during the war, the Royalist Colonel Walter Slingsby described him as “the fox” and the “best shifter and chooser of ground when he was not master of the ...
- Laurence Spring
Though at first Sir William Waller’s number seemed a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand, before night it covered the whole heavens, so great is the merit of priest-catching and so little the credit of a courtier among the mobile. Nevertheless, Waller was defeated after a protracted poll and his petition was not reported.6
17 de ene. de 2022 · The “new modelling” of Parliament’s army was first proposed by Sir William Waller after his defeat at Cropredy Bridge in June 1644. Parliament’s armies were recruited from regional associations but soldiers were often reluctant to campaign away from their local areas, as Waller found to his cost when trying to control his mutinous London regiments.
