“3 - Portable Library of Liberty Online Library of Liberty: The History of England, vol. 3 threw down their arms. A general indemnity was soon after published by the protector.h But though the insurrections were thus quickly subdued in Conduct of the war England, and no traces of them seemed to remain, they were with Scotland. attended with bad consequences to the foreign interests of the nation. The forces of the earl of Warwic, which might have made a great impression on Scotland, were diverte...d from that enterprize; and the French general had leisure to reduce that country to some settlement and composure. He took the fortress of Broughty, and put the garrison to the sword. He straitened the English at Haddington; and though lord Dacres was enabled to throw relief into the place, and to reinforce the garrison, it was found at last very chargeable, and even impracticable, to keep possession of that fortress. The whole country in the neighbourhood was laid waste by the inroads both of the Scots and English, and could afford no supply to the garrison: The place lay above thirty miles from the borders; so that a regular army was necessary to escort any provisions thither: And as the plague had broken out among the troops, they perished daily, and were reduced to a state of great weakness.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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