Complex sentence: 'The Radicals' of Bath, (forerunners of Chartism), and many other cities and towns pressed him to enter parliament, and Napier was actually invited to become tile military chief of a national guard to obtain reforms by force of arms.
Split into simpler sentences: 'The Radicals' of Bath, (forerunners of Chartism), among many other cities and towns pressed him to enter parliament. Napier's friends actually invited to become "tile" military chief of a national guard to obtain reforms by force of arms.