How to Capture a Leader?

[lugh]

During the Second Civil War (1648), Ireton went with Fairfax to suppress the Royalist uprising in Kent, and then to the bitter siege of Colchester in Essex. When Colchester surrendered, Fairfax controversially ordered the execution of the Royalist commanders Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle. Probably instigated by Ireton, the executions were calculated to deter others from taking up arms against Parliament and to set a precedent for the execution of Parliament's enemies.

This was the nearest I could find on execution post-surrender. Ireton was Cromwells right hand man. It does seem that at least some morality was exerted when the enemy surrendered.

[EatYerGreens]

This was the nearest I could find on execution post-surrender. Ireton was Cromwells right hand man. It does seem that at least some morality was exerted when the enemy surrendered.

That's reassuring. Presumably raising arms against Parliament was regarded as treasonous, in much the same way as raising arms against the monarch had been, previously?

I suppose, thinking about it logically, the 'con-trick' idea would only serve to undermine the whole surrender gambit, which one would hope to be able to pull off several times over, to save your own troops from having to attack numerous fortifications, so I see it as unlikely to ever be have been played out.