The History of England From the Accession of James

ISBN: 9781330041499 出版年：2016 页码：415 Thomas Macaulay Forgotten Books

The soldiers, too, were discontented. They hated Popery indeed; and they had not loved the banished King. But they keenly felt that, in the short cam paign which had decided the fate of their country, theirs had been an inglorious part. A regular army such as had never before marched to battle under the royal standard of England, had retreated precipitately before an invader, and had then, without a struggle.