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Excerpt from Memoirs of a Cavalier: Or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany and the Wars in England After a period of retirement at home, the Cavalier took advantage of the troubles with Scotland in 1639 to serve the king with a troop of horse. In the following year he was again in the North, and when King Charles' s forces had been defeated at Newburn, he was sent as a messenger to negotiate a treaty. The Civil War broke out in 1642, and the Cavalier served in his father's regiment at an action with the rebels under Essex in October. A few days later he was at the battle of Edgehill (fought on Sunday, October 23rd, not 24th, as Defoe says), and he was with the king when the Royalist advance on London was stopped at Brentford. In February 1643 the Cava lier was wounded at the capture Of Cirencester by the Royalists, and in July he contributed to the defeat of Sir William Waller at Roundway Down by taking a body of horse and dragoons to the aid of Sir Wil liam Hopton. Then came the siege of Gloucester. 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.