Pistoleer: Roundway Down

The spring of 1643 was cold and damp, so epidemics ravaged the army camps. Meanwhile the royalist flying armies were brutalizing the folk of the South West, of the Midlands, and of Lincolnshire. The locals scrambled to defend themselves with help from experienced officers such as Waller and Fairfax, but also from inexperienced militia officers llike Capt. O. Cromwell leading the men of the Fens.