Nathaniel Lyon, born in Connecticut, descended from old Puritan stock, with the blood of Cromwell's ironsides flowing in his veins.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy
A treasury exhausted by the lavish and profitless waste of Edward; a land without castle or bulwark, even at the mouths of the rivers; a people grown inert by long peace, and so accustomed to own lord and king in the northern invaders, that a single successful battle might induce half the population to insist on the Saxon coming to terms with the foe, and yielding, as ironsides did to Canute, one half of the realm.
"Harold, Book 10. The Last Of The Saxon Kings"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Since this exploit, the frigate ironsides, and the sloop of war Powhattan, have been added to its strength.
"Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863"
Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle