History of King Charles the Second of England

Jacob Abbott

Capitolo 78

while Charles, with his/her suggestion of war around him it bewared of the
top of the tower of a church inside the city this gradual and
irresistible advance of his/her definite enemy, with an anxiety that
gradually deepened in dismay.

The king, while now finding his/her desperate situation, determined to do one
final attempt to recover his fallen the fortunes. He formed his/her troops
in order, and it marched out for giving the battle of army that advances. He put
him to the head of a troop of Mountaineers, and it fought in person
with the courage and the rashness of the desperation. The officers knew full
well that was a question of the victory or death;  for if theirs didn't do
you conquer, they has to die, or from wounds on the battleground, or
other, if you/he/she is taken imprisoned, as traitors being suspended or it beheaded in
the Tower. Every possibility of escape, trapped and surrounded as them
it was in the a lot of heart of the country, in hundreds of miles from the
frontiers, suddenly seemed without hope. They fought, therefore, with
unwise and desperate fury, but all were in vain. They was rejected
and checked in on all the sides, and the soldiers ran away for a long time, while bringing
the officers with them, in tumult and it disarranges, back through the gates
in the city.

An army that flies in confusion to shelter him in a city cannot close the
gates behind them against their pursuers. In fact, in such scene of
terror and he/she dismays, there is not any order, any obedience, anybody calm. To
the gate where Charles strove to get back in the city, he founded
the way obstructed above from a heavy cart of ammunition that had been entangled
there, one of the oxen whom you/they were drawing being killed him/it. The
insane of men & and horsemen were stopped by this disaster. The king
gotten off, abandoned his/her horse, and it made his/her way through and on the
obstruction as him was able. When he got in the city, he found all in
confusion there. His/her men were throwing himself/herself/itself by the arm, and pressing
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