Couple of things.
Yes, this is a very much expanded and extended version of the booklet that I did thirty years ago (THIRTY YEARS AGO ??? Grief !!!). To give you an idea - that work had about 6000 words - this has a little short of 70,000. I have also expanded it to include (as far as I could) the Irish Army. But you get the idea, although there is no denying you will find some duplication of information, which is unavoidable, although there is an awful lot of information that I don't think has ever been published before.
Mark Allen did four of the colour plates but these are new - they are not simply the old ones re-used, I would have hated that probably as much as any buyers. Incidentally (long term) we are jointly paying with the idea of an "Armies of the War of the League of Augsburg" title...
With respect to the Army after James abandoned the throne - this doesn't, I'm afraid form any real part of the book and is simply mentioned in the blurb but here are some thoughts (and quite open to debate on this one).
There was no wholesale disbandment of the Regiments and those new ones that were disbanded (entirely the newly-raised and partly-formed units) had the personnel that they had raised merged into the rest of the Army.
About 65-70% of the Officer Corps was acceptable to William and offered new commissions although, in the end, only about half of these actually served and William was forced to find a great number of new officers.
However there were very few desertions from the rank and file (covered in one of the book's appendices btw) and even fewer mutinies so the Army that William put new officers into was experienced, even if its officers were often not as much so. This is why the Army did so well in Ireland and on the Continent when it went there - although as I said many officers had to learn their trade but also many officers got promotions so that the newly-commissioned often went in at lower company positions. (Incidentally a great number of the personnel has served on the continent 1672-78 and over 4,000 foot had served in Tangier so it certainly wasn't "raw").
Overall the Army didn't collapse in 1688, and the rank and file in the main remained loyal to the oaths (witness what happened when there was an attempt to lead three Regiments of Horse over to William...). What collapsed was James' own morale particularly after his abandonment by Anne (cf Ungrateful Daughters - interesting book).
The ARMY was still effectively in being, albeit missing many officers from December, January onwards. It probably would have collapsed if the officers had done a "mass resignation" but luckily they didn't and with the NCOs mainly staying true to the Crown (whoever was wearing it) it continued in being...
Anyway that's me waffling now and going well beyond the main topic of this thread but, as I said, more than happy to debate this one if anyone has other information from the Winter of 1688/9 that I haven't found (yet, but the search continues
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