. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. MUD BULWARKS 39 place and Kuightsbridge. It seems quite likely that, but for the mud of those miscalled "roads," the rebellion would have been successful, and the course of history changed. But Wyatt's soldiers were utterly exhausted with the march; and when the Londoners saw them, plastered with mud from head to foot, they forgot their own discontent, and laughed at. HYDE PARK CORNER, 1792. their would-b
. The Bath road : history, fashion, & frivolity on an old highway. Horses; Bath Road (England); England -- Description and travel; England -- Social life and customs; genealogy. MUD BULWARKS 39 place and Kuightsbridge. It seems quite likely that, but for the mud of those miscalled "roads," the rebellion would have been successful, and the course of history changed. But Wyatt's soldiers were utterly exhausted with the march; and when the Londoners saw them, plastered with mud from head to foot, they forgot their own discontent, and laughed at. HYDE PARK CORNER, 1792. their would-be deliverers, calling them " draggle- ; So, dispirited and contemned, they were easily disposed of by the Queen's troops, who, secure l)ehind their girdle of muck, had only to wait and slay them at leisure. The lesson seems not to have been lost upon the authorities, and accordingly we find this defence of dirt in existence up to the year 1842. For nearly three hundred years this "splendid isolation" set an almost impassable gulf between those who wished to get out of London and those who wanted to come in ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harper, Charles G. (Charles George), 1863-1943. London : Chapman & Hall, Limited
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