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Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley is a General Officer with
multinational operational command experience at all levels from
platoon to corps in theatres from Northern Ireland to the Balkans,
the Gulf, Iraq, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan.
General Riley has been awarded the DSO and NATO Meritorious Service
Medal and is an Officer of the Legion of Merit of the United States
of America. He holds the degrees of MA and PhD in modern history
and has written numerous books. He is currently Visiting Professor
in War Studies at King’s College London, a member of the British
Commission for Military History, and Chairman of the Royal Welsh
Fusiliers Museum Trust.
“ … a riveting story, very well told and eminently readable
*Casemate: Journal of the Fortress Study Group*
“ … Excellent and highly recommended book if you have any interest
at all the early British Army”
*Arquebusier: Journal of the Pike & Shot Society*
“This impressive volume … is another nail in the coffin of that
tired old saw that all history has been written, especially of the
British Army and its antecedents …”
*Newsletter of the Society of Friends of the National Army
Museum*
“ … Riley has done a good job of introducing Schomberg to a new
generation of readers … a very welcome study…”
*The Seventeenth Century*
"a very interesting look at a long forgotten campaign, one which
saw the last elements of Cromwell’s New Model Army take the field
alongside Royalist troops to fight for Portugal against Spain in
the name of the recently restored Charles II. It’s a tale of tough
campaigning, grueling marches, hard fighting, bureaucratic neglect,
and more that reduced the small army from 3,500 men to 1,000, few
of whom ever saw England again. As he tells this story, Riley
touches upon the conduct of war inthe period, and at times makes
comparisons with later English campaigns in Portugal and Spain.
Despite its rather obscure subject, this lively, well written
account will prove interesting reading for any armchair
general."
*The NYMAS Review*
“ … This books fills an important gap in the history of the British
Army in the 17th century …”
*Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research*
“ … a rewarding narrative of a neglected piece of British military
history.”
*Michigan War Studies Review*
“In short a great book that will be going with me to Normandy next
year.”
*Army Rumour Service*
"This book is a valuable contribution to seventeenth century
military history, and a fitting tribute to the brave men, whether
royalist or parliamentarian, catholic or protestant, who took the
redcoat of the English Brigade to the Iberian Peninsula a century
or more before Wellington"
*Battlefield Magazine*
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