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Title: The London & North-Western Railway
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Eyre-Todd, George, 1862-1937
Subjects: London and North-Western Railway Railroads -- Great Britain Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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find themselves among friends, for theEnglish Parliament had declared for Presbyterianism—it was on the point of going over to the kings side—and between then\ they might defy Cromwell andFairfax with their army of In-dependents. It looked as if theroad were open, for Fairfax wasbesieging the Presbyterians of theEast in Colchester, while Crom-well was doing the same withthose of the West in Pembroke. But at that critical momentPembroke surrendered, andCromwell found his hands free.By forced marches the greatgeneral of the Ironsides madehis way northward into York-shire. There he called Lambertto join him, and with 10,000 menmarched down Ribblesdale tointercept the Scots. The Dukes army, which had been joined by 3,000English recruits, was straggling across the Kibble atPreston when, like a thunderbolt, Cromwell descendedon its flank. As it hurried its crossing of the river hekept it company ; at Wigan, fifteen miles to the south,he cut its rear-guard to pieces— Cromwells Ditch 55
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Signal Box, with Electrically-operated Signals. London and North-Western Railway is to be seen there in the towns outskirts to the presentday; and at Warrington, ten miles further southstill, where it made a last desperate stand, he forcedthe infantry to surrender, and sent Lambert inpursuit of the Duke and his cavalry, which had beencompelled to flee. The second action at Preston took place in Novem-ber, 1715, and as it occurred on the same day as theBattle of Sheriffmuir in Scotland, marked the close ofthe Jacobite Rebellion of that year against KingGeorge I. Under the Earl of Derwentwater and Mr.Forster a little force of Catholic and Jacobite gentlemenhad assembled in Northumberland, and proclaimed King James III.3 They were joined by 2,000Highlanders under Brigadier Mackintosh, whom theEarl of Mar, leader of the rising in Scotland, had sentsouth to beat up the country, and they marched intoLancashire, where the Catholic party was strongest.Here they found the troops of King George

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