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    Gloucester's Military Legacy

    By Christine Jordan

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    From the establishment of Gloucester as a Roman colonia, a colony of retired military veterans, the city has held a strategic position, being close to the easiest crossing over the River Severn and into Wales. The Romans began building the city’s defenses, including the city walls and bastions, which were further enhanced by the great warrior Aethelflaed and which would become invaluable in the Siege of Gloucester during the Civil War in 1643. These walls would be destroyed by Charles II as a punishment for the city’s role in the conflict. In the twelfth century, Gloucester’s first motte and bailey castle were built and used by a number of kings as a garrison to prepare attacks against the Welsh and the Irish. The formation of what would become known as ‘The Glorious Glosters’, in 1782, led to a number of notable military campaigns, including the battles of Alexandria, Quatre Bras, the Second Boer War, including the Siege of Ladysmith, both World Wars and the Korean War. Christine’s book will take you on an historic journey, uncovering on the way the city’s military legacy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateJul 3, 2017
    ISBN9781526707727
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    Christine Jordan

    Christine Jordan was born in the front room of a National Coal Board house into a Yorkshire mining community. Her dad was a coal filler and her mum a homemaker. She didn’t do well at school and left at sixteen finding jobs in catering or ending up unemployed. Eventually, she returned to education finally gaining a degree in Sociology and going on to obtain an MBA. She has worked as a stewardess on a passenger ferry, picked potatoes on an Essex farm, taught English in Greece and even ran a pub.

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