ABSTRACT
The situation in Britain was very similar to that on the continent. For instance, in November 1632 Gustavus Adolphus had 183,000 men under arms, of whom 52 per cent were on garrison duty in Sweden or Germany, 36 per cent served in independent armies, and only 11 per cent came under the king’s direct command.1 In June 1645 Charles I had nearly forty thousand soldiers in his army, of whom 25 per cent were at Naseby, 27 per cent served in Prince Maurice’s field army in the West Country, while the remaining 48 per cent were scattered among garrisons mostly in Wales, the West and Midlands.
