HANLEY CASTLE

Author : W.S. Symonds

  Being an unusually wet season, we passed the first night in pouring rain, a thick fog rising in the morning, shrouding alike besiegers and besieged. When the fog cleared, those who occupied the high grounds, commanding the view of the city, little thought that it could long hold out against the formidable array which begirt it on all sides. But unfortunately, in the King's army, there were too many gentlemen and cavalry officers, amateur soldiers riding fine horses and attended by fine servants, who never put foot in the trenches.



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