5 a Very Murdering Battle
“It was an event that always generated contradictory emotions. While he felt a surge of pride for a man he’d loved and admired, he was forced to remember the tragic circumstances of his death. Defeated and captured at the Battle of Sedgemoor, Captain Nathan Rawson had met the fate of so many other rebels and dangled from the gallows in front of a large crowd. A mere boy at the time, Daniel had never forgotten the sight. It was seared into his brain. Under cover of darkness, he’d helped to cut hi...s father down and spirit him away to the parish church, where he was buried furtively in an unmarked grave. It was years before Daniel was able to return to the spot and arrange for his father’s remains to be exhumed then interred after a Christian burial service. That gave him a sense that justice had been done.
As he knelt beside the grave, he thought – not for the first time – how different it would all have been if the rebellion had succeeded. His father would have retired from the makeshift army gathered around the Duke of Monmouth and become a farmer once more.MoreLess
As he knelt beside the grave, he thought – not for the first time – how different it would all have been if the rebellion had succeeded. His father would have retired from the makeshift army gathered around the Duke of Monmouth and become a farmer once more.MoreLess
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