{"id":9723,"date":"2013-09-15T23:37:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T22:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9723"},"modified":"2013-09-15T23:37:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T22:37:38","slug":"heritage-weekend-2013-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=9723","title":{"rendered":"The Relative Merits of Oliver Cromwell and Napolean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-FJUYXkJ6qx8\/UjYujvUZXRI\/AAAAAAAAPCs\/Vgpm0Impgjg\/s1600\/13091602.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-FJUYXkJ6qx8\/UjYujvUZXRI\/AAAAAAAAPCs\/Vgpm0Impgjg\/s1600\/13091602.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There was an unusual gathering at the Mayor&#8217;s Parlour this afternoon. Visitors from our twin town Argentan met cavaliers, over for the second day of the Heritage Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>After the cavaliers had explained the English Civil War, the relative merits of Oliver Cromwell and Napolean were discussed through a translator.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9PP1CNaCO_M\/UjYwCfDmgFI\/AAAAAAAAPC4\/Fm73UfTpeG0\/s1600\/13091601.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9PP1CNaCO_M\/UjYwCfDmgFI\/AAAAAAAAPC4\/Fm73UfTpeG0\/s1600\/13091601.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Cavaliers came at a last minute invitation for &#8216;Heritage Weekend &#8216; and came both days &#8211; not just the more popular Saturday.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Rf36u91XhOo\/UjYwjPDJOmI\/AAAAAAAAPDA\/QHVNhlt5JsQ\/s1600\/13091604.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Rf36u91XhOo\/UjYwjPDJOmI\/AAAAAAAAPDA\/QHVNhlt5JsQ\/s1600\/13091604.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo it was good the Mayor could entertain them. They also visited some of the local Civil War sites such as Culham Bridge, and Barton Court.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UFwe_vd-8-0\/UjYzBpbgoyI\/AAAAAAAAPDU\/dljuwBIlVxU\/s1600\/13091603.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UFwe_vd-8-0\/UjYzBpbgoyI\/AAAAAAAAPDU\/dljuwBIlVxU\/s1600\/13091603.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd did two more recruitment drives training Abingdon&#8217;s youngsters to defend the town. The town was fairly quiet on Sunday but on both occasions they did well to pull together a company and entertain children and parents.  Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130908084522\/http:\/\/ecws.org.uk:80\/cms\/\">The English Civil War Society<\/a> for this taster of what they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an unusual gathering at the Mayor&#8217;s Parlour this afternoon. Visitors from our twin town Argentan met cavaliers, over for the second day of the Heritage Weekend. After the cavaliers had explained the English Civil War, the relative merits of Oliver Cromwell and Napolean were discussed through a translator. The Cavaliers came at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}