Edit schmedit.

[erastes]

It's moving along, but gah! the mistakes one finds !!

I'm describing the Battle of Edgehill and I go and say that the right flank of the King'S cavalry attacked the right flank of the Parliament's.  Idiot!

Only if

1. they galloped diagonally across the flood plain OR

2. They were both facing in the same direction.

*kicks self*

I also mention SHRAPNEL.  Yeah. In 1642.  Riiiiight...... That would have been hard to live down as my fellow historical novelists laughed in my face.

It's a worry!

Comments

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

You meant John Shrapnel, star of many a historical drama.

There is a third explanation. They were dyslexic.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

well no - I didn't go so mad as to have Mr Shrapnel on Cromwell's side, but I kept referring to the cannons loaded with broken fragments as firing shrapnel across the field.

*laughs* All the soldiers should have written L and R on their boots before the battle.