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Marston Moor saw the king defeated, Rupert's troopers being, as the historian tells us, made as "stubble to the swords of Cromwell's Ironsides." The king's shattered army retreated to York, was pursued, and in a fortnight York surrendered to the Parliamentary forces. The city languished afterwards, losing its trade, and developing vast pride, but equal poverty.
Popular indignation rose to a white heat, and swept everything before it. The order was at once revoked, and Congress decided that the old frigate, so dear to the hearts of the American people, should be rebuilt. Why did the people care so much about "Old Ironsides"? For twenty-five years after the adoption of the Constitution, we had a rough road to travel.
So when the wedding was over, King Sweyn fared home to Denmark with Gunnhild his wife, and they became the parents of Canute the Mighty the same who in his manhood fought against Edmund Ironsides and reigned as King of England.
With all this, and with his "trust in Providence," it was long before the wary Oliver would bring his Ironsides fairly face to face, With the bravos of Alsatia and the pages of Whitehall. It is true that the Revolutionary army of '93 was utterly different from those, wherein the Maison du Roi took the right of the line.
In consequence, when the day of battle came, there was not a man in the corps who did not feel sure that if he shirked duty Stonewall Jackson would shoot him and God Almighty would damn him. This helped to render Jackson's thirty thousand perhaps the most efficient fighting-machine which had appeared upon the battlefield since the Ironsides of Oliver Cromwell.
When he was Chief Commander of the armies of England, he insisted on acting as colonel and leading the Ironsides into battle at the head of a charge. When Cromwell was presented with six coach-horses, all alike, and by one sire, he insisted on personally driving them.
For an instant, in his earnest gaze and reverent manner, we seemed to catch a glimpse of the deeper, truer Nelson, the man of the Eastern counties, steeped in the virile Puritanism which sent from that district the Ironsides to fashion England within, and the Pilgrim Fathers to spread it without.
The fact I remember best is that Owen Shelby, late of Cromwell's Ironsides, died a bachelor." She flung from him in stormy anger. "I've twice been fool enough," she flashed, "to marry a man unable to appreciate me." He winced. The reproach, more wanton than any she had ever framed, lashed him on the raw.
If he comes to you disguised as one of these somewhat commonplace Ironsides, and recommended by your mother, consider how very much the fairy Prince of your dreams would have to put up with in you, and you will probably find it heavenly, as well as worldly wisdom, to "go down on your knees and thank Heaven fasting for a good man's love."
There was great risk of getting raked, but fortunately the Java's shots went wild. "Old Ironsides" was now within close range of the Java, and the fire of her heavy cannon soon left the British frigate dismasted and helpless. The British did not surrender, however, until every stick in the ship except a part of the mainmast had been cut away.
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