Contrary to popular notions of set piece clashes filled with dashing cavalry charges and tens of tho

Contrary to popular notions of set piece clashes filled with dashing cavalry charges and tens of thousands of soldiers, sieges were every bit as important as battles in the English Civil Wars - and that’s where cannons came in handy!.Both sides possessed their own ‘siege trains’ of varying sizes – slow-moving convoys of cannons, their crews, impressed ‘pioneers’, and siege experts that would travel separately to the main army and would be called upon to lay siege to an enemy fortification while the larger force moved on. These trains could include a wide variety of different guns, from ‘cannon royal’ to ‘culverins’, 63-15 pounders, and mortars of various sizes..Sieges could be a costly business, both in terms of resources and manpower. In his 1671 treatise Observations, George Monk – who had fought on both sides in the English Civil War – wrote “Every Commander knows that mans flesh is the best fortification that belongs to a Town; and where a Town is well manned, the best way of taking it is by Starving; and when a town is weakly manned, the best of taking it is by Battery and Assaults, or by Approaches, Mining, Battery, and Assaults”.Find out more at https://earlofmanchesters.co.uk/siege-warfare-in-the-english-civil-wars/. @johnbeardy.#siege #cannon #guns #cannons #castles #flare #fire #smoke #photoreenactment #reenactment #reenactors #reenacting #reenactorstyle #reenactorslife #reenactorsofinstagram #reenactmentphotography #livinghistory #history #photohistory #historicalreenactment #17thcentury #sealedknot #dailyphoto #photoaday #photooftheday #photoadaychallenge #englishcivilwar #instadailyhttps://www.instagram.com/p/CAGuTW2H8Ke/?igshid=1wjzb3u324ndy -- source link

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