Gaunt, Peter2016-04-152016-04-152015-07-16Gaunt, P. (2015). Minor operations in the English civil war. Cromwelliana, Series 3(4), 123-28.0307-5583http://hdl.handle.net/10034/605455This short paper explores the surviving sources which give information on minor operations - raids, skirmishes, ambushes, beating-up quarters and the like. In particular, it compares and contrasts the sources for two such minor operations - the skirmish at Myddle in Shropshire sometime in the autumn or winter of 1644-45 and the pursuit of the royalist Lord Forth, his carriage train and lifeguard shortly after the second battle of Newbury in October 1644 - and evaluates both their reliability and what they reveal about the nature of the civil war.enmilitary historyEnglish Civil WarArticleCromwelliana