 | 1918 - 398 sivua
...commenced. In Macaulay's England, we find the following relative to the disbandment of Cromwell's army: "The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand...veterans would be seen begging in every street, or would be driven by hunger to pillage. But no such result followed. In a few months there remained not... | |
 | Howard Cecil Perkins - 1964 - 644 sivua
...homes with such after record of their history as is given of Cromwell's army of Christian veterans: "Fifty thousand men, accustomed to the profession of arms, were at once thrown on the world. In a few months there remained not a trace indicating that the most formidable army in the world had... | |
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The troops were now to be disbanded. Fifty thousand men, accustomed to the profession of arms, were at once thrown on the world ; and experience seemed to warrant the belief that this change would produce much misery and crime — that the discharged... 
