Life and Times of General Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon, Colonel of an English Regiment in the Dutch Service, 1605-1631, and One of His Majesty´s Most Honourable Privy Council, 1628-1638, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Life and Times of General Sir Edward Cecil, Viscount Wimbledon, Colonel of an English Regiment in the Dutch Service, 1605-1631, and One of His Majesty´s Most Honourable Privy Council, 1628-1638, Vol. 1 of 2 In these days of universal authorship it is difficult to find a nook or corner in the wide field of English history which has not been thoroughly explored by some past or present writer. There is, however, one plot of ground which has only partially been cultivated by succeeding generations of historians and biographers. This neglected piece of ground was, in the seventeenth century, the camping ground of a large class of Britons known as "soldiers of fortune," whose lives were spent in the Low Countries fighting in the cause of Dutch independence. It was customary at one time for the Home Government, whenever officers were wanted for some special service, to borrow the services of experienced British soldiers of fortune from the Dutch Government for a certain length of time. James I., who may truly be styled the Pacific, rarely troubled any of his military subjects to fight any battles for him, but his son, Charles I., was of a much more bellicose nature, and before he had been two years on the throne he had already despatched two large joint naval and military expeditions to the coast of Spain. The first fleet, which the poet Waller alluded to in one of his poems, was commanded by a soldier of fortune who had served for many years in Holland as colonel of a foot regiment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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