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  • Home
  • About
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    • God’s Vindictive Wrath
    • DESECRATION
    • The Keys of Hell and Death
    • FIRELOCK
    • FREE eBook
    • Characters & Causes
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    • The General Crisis
    • The Great Rebellion
    • Pike & Shot Warfare
    • Battle of Edgehill 1642
    • Edgehill to London 1642
    • Battle of Aylesbury 1642
    • Battle of Brentford 1642
    • Battle of Turnham Green
    • Storming of Winchester 1642
    • Battle of Lansdown Hill 1643
    • Siege of Devizes 1643
    • Battle of Roundway Down
    • Storming of Bristol 1643
    • Civil War in Cheshire 1643
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