The right-wing paramilitary's offensive against the Marxist guerrillas failed because they did not know the terrain well enough.

[I]n February 1648, in a letter to [Thomas] Fairfax's secretary, [Robert] Overton expresses pleasure that the king's servants have been removed and suggests that it would 'prove a happy privation if the Father would please to dispossess him of three transitory kingdoms to infeoff him in an eternal one'.

Coordinate term: chinawoman

And so we all sat down again, and stared at him and at each other in helpless, hopeless bewilderment, until suddenly a German of the company, an odd fellow full of crotchets, who had lumbered the expedition with a whole sledgeful of private baggage, sprang up, lighted a torch, and darted out of the cavern as though possessed with a new idea.