Shearwood, Mark: - Mark Shearwood has had a lifelong interest in military history and wargaming. Following a brief career in the Royal Engineers he spent most of his working life with the courier industry, returning to complete his master's degree at Leeds in 2018. His primary research focus is on the military of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century from the Monmouth Rebellion to the end of the Great Northern War. His current Ph.D. research is looking into issues of religion and loyalty within the armies of James II and William III. This is his second book for Helion & Co, the first published in 2020 From Pike to Shot: The Perfection of Military Discipline: The Introduction of the Bayonet 1660-1705 (Century of the Soldier) He is married with four children and lives in Chesterfield on the edge of the Peak District.