On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire and Their Historical, Legendary, and Aesthetic Associations (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire and Their Historical, Legendary, and Aesthetic Associations (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Hardwick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire and Their Historical, Legendary, and Aesthetic Associations To the transactions of the Manchester Literary Club(1875-8) I contributed four papers on "Some Ancient Battle-fields in Lancashire." These essays form the nuclei of the four chapters of the present volume. Their original scope, however, has been much extended, and the evidences there adduced largely augmented. I have likewise endeavoured to still further fortify and illustrate my several positions, by citations from well-known, and many recent, labourers in similar or cognate fields of enquiry. I am aware that the precise locality of any given battle-field is of relatively little interest to the general historian, the causes of the conflict and its political results demanding the largest share of his attention. Consequently, doubtful topographical features are often either completely ignored, or but slightly referred to. Such a course, however, is not permissible to the local student. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.