Btw, since you and Mildred are the military experts
Haha, well, two problems. 1) Monmouth and William were 17th century, which bored me to tears despite my best efforts as a teenager, so I never even remotely looked into the military history there. 2) Jacobite military history falls under "I can't let myself give into the temptation to rehash this or I'll never stop, and I have too many new things I need to learn like German."
My off-the-cuff response is that William had the kind of support he needed to go straight for London, whereas BPC didn't, and James had managed to piss off way more people, which improved William's chances and harmed BPC's. But BPC also made some *cough* questionable military decisions (that drove Lord George Murray crazy), and there I must stop.
Re: Replies on Stuarts and treason and Monmouth
Haha, well, two problems. 1) Monmouth and William were 17th century, which bored me to tears despite my best efforts as a teenager, so I never even remotely looked into the military history there. 2) Jacobite military history falls under "I can't let myself give into the temptation to rehash this or I'll never stop, and I have too many new things I need to learn
like German."My off-the-cuff response is that William had the kind of support he needed to go straight for London, whereas BPC didn't, and James had managed to piss off way more people, which improved William's chances and harmed BPC's. But BPC also made some *cough* questionable military decisions (that drove Lord George Murray crazy), and there I must stop.