| Shakespear | 26 Mar 2018 7:52 p.m. PST |
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| Black Cavalier | 26 Mar 2018 8:10 p.m. PST |
William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle |
| Pictors Studio | 26 Mar 2018 8:39 p.m. PST |
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| Kevin C | 26 Mar 2018 8:49 p.m. PST |
George Monck. He understood what it took to return normality to the nation. |
| nsolomon99 | 26 Mar 2018 10:14 p.m. PST |
Sir Ralph Hopton? Sir Bevil Grenville maybe? Sir Thomas Fairfax on the list for sure. All of them more honest soldier than politician. |
| Codsticker | 26 Mar 2018 10:18 p.m. PST |
Mr Personality himself, Prince Rupert. |
| Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 26 Mar 2018 11:39 p.m. PST |
I'll let you take one guess :) |
| AussieAndy | 27 Mar 2018 1:12 a.m. PST |
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| Drunken skunk | 27 Mar 2018 1:25 a.m. PST |
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| Mollinary | 27 Mar 2018 2:46 a.m. PST |
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 BigRedBat  | 27 Mar 2018 3:20 a.m. PST |
Indeed Astley "O Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget Thee, do not forget me." BAsing him today… |
ZULUPAUL  | 27 Mar 2018 3:28 a.m. PST |
Cromwell I know he isn't popular but then again I'm not from England & grew up on the movie "Cromwell". |
| SpuriousMilius | 27 Mar 2018 4:26 a.m. PST |
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| Razor78 | 27 Mar 2018 4:27 a.m. PST |
Col Peter Egerton…a relatively |
| martinthorold | 27 Mar 2018 5:16 a.m. PST |
My vote goes for Sir Thomas Tyldersley… "the finest knight in England" |
| dwight shrute | 27 Mar 2018 5:25 a.m. PST |
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| AussieAndy | 27 Mar 2018 6:20 a.m. PST |
Actually, Colonel Rainsborough would be my serious choice. |
| skinkmasterreturns | 27 Mar 2018 8:11 a.m. PST |
Everybody loves Boye in one fashion or another, even if he was considered Satan's representative by the Roundheads. |
| KeithRK | 27 Mar 2018 8:13 a.m. PST |
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| Supercilius Maximus | 27 Mar 2018 8:17 a.m. PST |
Either Pwinth Wupert of the Whine, or hith bwuther, Pwinth Mauwith. |
| martin goddard | 27 Mar 2018 9:10 a.m. PST |
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| Shagnasty | 27 Mar 2018 9:28 a.m. PST |
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| Elenderil | 27 Mar 2018 9:37 a.m. PST |
Surprised Carlo Fantom hasn't had a mention yet. |
| Baccus 6mm | 27 Mar 2018 11:57 a.m. PST |
Tom Fairfax. Fought a magnificently spirited and successful campaign in Yorkshire in the early months of the war often badly outnumbered. The first Lord General of the NMA, and made a very good job of that. Resigned his commission in protest at the execution of the double-dealing and pernicious Charles Stuart and lived to a good age as a respected gentleman. What is there not to like or respect? |
| Wargames Designs | 27 Mar 2018 12:40 p.m. PST |
Dumb Dyott, for sniping off Lord Brooke from the tower of Lichfield Cathedral, what a shot! Also serves Brooke right for being a show off and dressing his men in purple. Jst a glimpse of my model of Dumb Dyatt strikes fear into my mate Nick when he has Brookes regiment on the gaming table. |
| cavcrazy | 27 Mar 2018 1:30 p.m. PST |
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| Carlo Fantom | 27 Mar 2018 1:42 p.m. PST |
My namesake, Carlo Fantom. He was a very naughty man. |
| goragrad | 27 Mar 2018 2:07 p.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 27 Mar 2018 2:09 p.m. PST |
Wasn't Montrose the one who complained that his desserts were too small?
Come on! It's prison food! One scoop of ice cream is all you get! |
| rampantlion | 27 Mar 2018 4:39 p.m. PST |
Rupert was my favorite, but Fantom might be the most interesting! |
| Cyrus the Great | 27 Mar 2018 9:49 p.m. PST |
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose. |
| Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 28 Mar 2018 5:22 a.m. PST |
Yes Montrose has to get an honourably mention probably the most gifted soldier of the whole war given the material he had to work with and the results he got. |
| steamingdave47 | 28 Mar 2018 10:55 a.m. PST |
Montrose gets the credit for a lot of Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich MacDhňmhnaill's work. He was also facing some fairly disjointed opponents, whose loyalty to their cause in 1644-45 was rather dubious.
My vote goes to Thomas Fairfax, with an honourable mention to his cousin, William. |
| Prince Rupert of the Rhine | 28 Mar 2018 12:46 p.m. PST |
Regardless of the disjointed nature of his opponents I struggle to think of another civil war general who could of pulled off what Montrose did with the soldiers he had available. While the Irish were good soldiers the highlanders were still akin to a medieval levy (and a pretty independent one at that) the build up to the battle of Inverlochy was an epic strategic master stroke. |
| steamingdave47 | 28 Mar 2018 2:31 p.m. PST |
Inverlochy was a significant achievement for Montrose, but both at Auldearn and at Philiphaugh Montrose seems to have neglected some of the basics of proper reconnaissance and his forces were caught dispersed. He managed to turn it round at Auldearn, largely because he was facing an army with a high proportion of raw levies, some of whom were led by half hearted leaders (and Mac Colla's force gave him time to pull the rest of his army together). At Philiphaugh he came against a more cohesive and better led force than at Auldearn and it proved his undoing. |
| Cheriton | 28 Mar 2018 2:46 p.m. PST |
Sir Ralph Hopton… 
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| janner | 31 Mar 2018 5:38 a.m. PST |
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| MacColla | 05 Apr 2018 2:56 p.m. PST |
Another vote for Montrose. I would have said my namesake; but Montrose's defeat at Philiphaugh was due in part to his habitual lack of reconnaissance but equally due to MacColla going off with a large part of the Irish on his own personal/clan dispute leaving Montrose in the lurch. |
| Last Hussar | 05 Apr 2018 4:00 p.m. PST |
Not saying anything about favourite, but 'Black Tom' Fairfax's grandfather is a direct forebear of mine (i.e. one of my Dad's ancestors was Fairfax's cousin) |
| Gwydion | 08 Apr 2018 5:49 a.m. PST |
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| GEames | 08 Apr 2018 10:46 p.m. PST |
Hugh Dubh O'Neill. Possibly one of the most overlooked commanders of war in Ireland. |
receives a gift from his wife…