ABSTRACT
The commanders on both sides during the Great Civil War were fully aware of the military reforms described in Chapter III, adapted them to English circumstances and then modified them in the light of experience. Our objective in this chapter is not to compare battlefield tactics and check them against the major and minor innovations associated with Dutch and Swedish military practice, interesting though that may be, but to ascertain the extent to which tactical developments on their own were responsible for Parliament’s victory and the king’s defeat.
