h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is a very good ECW entry please allow me to offer some additional information that you may wish to consider including.



After Edge hill The King took Banbury on October 27th. Then went to Oxford October 29th, and set up his Capital


On the way to London Rupert’s forces captured the following towns
Abingdon, Aylesbury and Maidenhead. Rupert failed to take either Kingston upon Thames or Windsor (attempted on November 4th 1642).They were to well defended and the garrisons that Rupert would have left Abingdon, Aylesbury and Maidenhead may have contributed to his lack of men.


Then Brentford was taken on November 11th



The Royalist forces had problems as some wanted to opens peace talks rather than attack London This vacillation caused enough of a delay to allow Essex to slip past the royalist force and reinforce London. On November 13th Essex army under Skippon, left London with the army and the trained bands (local militia) and blocked the kings advance upon London at Turnham Green.
The Royalist army then numbered 12000 and was severely short of ammunition, whilst the Parliament army was 24000 plus a large number of the population of London.

The King withdrew in the face of these odds and went into winter quarters at Oxford, Reading, Wallingford, Abingdon and other towns

Also please note
>As the King fell back towards Oxford Essex strengthened his position by taking Windsor, which was to remain headquarters of the<

My sources differ at this point
As Rupert or the king failed to take Windsor there were some Royalist forces in the town that retreated as Essex advanced.

You have an excellent entry here a nice informative flowing style and your source documents appear to be incomlete. I just offer this little bit of padding to aid the flow Please do not be offended.




Please feel free to refer to my articles om Essex Stamfore and Hampden

It is taking me longer than I thought, I shall have a lot of time in December, it will be finished. I am determined. I only get the chance to work on it during working hours, when I should be attending to other things.

Thanks to all for their help and suggestions. This really is a good place to put something like this together

OldBerk

PS Try "Royal Town Rebel Garrison", a History of Windsor during the civil war.

OldBerk
How are you doing with this it looks finished to me. I would count it a favour if you were to link this to my ECW entries,

Hear from you soon.

Bob...