audiobook Black; White; and Red All Over by Linda J. Lumsden in History

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When Puritans Edward Whalley and William Goffe joined the parliamentary army against King Charles I in the English civil wars; they seized an opportunity to overthrow a tyrant. Under their battlefield leadership; the army trounced the Royalist forces and then cut off the king's head. Yet when his son; Charles II; regained the throne; Whalley and Goffe were force to flee to the New England colonies aboard the ship Prudent Mary--never to see their families or England again. Even with the help of New England's Puritan elite; including Reverend John Davenport; they struggled to stay a step ahead of searches for their arrest in Boston; New Haven (where they hid out in Judges Cave) and the outpost of Hadley; Massachusetts. Forced to live as fugitives; these former major generals survived frontier adventures in seventeenth-century New England. Author Christopher Pagliuco reveals the all-but-forgotten stories of these Connecticut heroes.