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• List of maps, List of plates, Preface and acknowledgments, Introduction, 1 The Scottish Revolution and the two Bishops’ Wars, 2 The outbreak of the English and Irish Revolutions, 1640–1642, 3 The wars expand, 4 Stalemate, turning point, and disillusionment, 5 The creation of the New Model Army and the royalist defeat, 6 Parliament’s victory and search for a settlement, 7 The defeat of the Irish Confederacy and the second English Civil War, 8 The execution of Charles I and the conquest of Catholic Ireland, 9 The triumph and failure of the Commonwealth, 1649–53, 10 Triumph and tragedy: the first Dutch War and the death of the English Republic, Bibliography, Index