Goring. Distinctly not boring.

It's not often I blog about a Royalist, but I'll make an exception for George Goring.

What a marvellous, wicked, wanton, dissolute, all-round menace of a caricature Cavalier he was, and now here he is, turning up in Fairfax’s South-Western campaign of 1645 just in time for me to make sport with him.

(An aside – he might have been a most rascally Royalist type, but there’s something strangely appealing about him…)

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Published on October 01, 2016 11:41 Tags: 17th-century, history, south-west-campaign
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