Jan 6th @ 12 Noon - Michael Jackson - THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

Mon, Jan 6th 2020 at 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Michael will give us one of his fascinating talks, this time it is about the English Civil War


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English Civil War
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The victory of the Parliamentarian New Model Army over the Royalist Army at the Battle of Naseby on 14 June 1645 marked the decisive turning point in the English Civil War.
Date 22 August 1642 – 3 September 1651
Location
Kingdoms of England, Ireland and Scotland.
Result

Parliamentarian victory

Belligerents
Royalists Parliamentarians
Commanders and leaders
Casualties and losses
50,000[1] 34,000[1]
127,000 non-combat deaths (including some 40,000 civilians)[a]

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") principally over the manner of England's governance. The first (1642–1646) and second (1648–1649) wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third (1649–1651) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. The war ended with Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651.

The outcome of the war was threefold: the trial and execution of Charles I (1649); the exile of his son, Charles II (1651); and the replacement of English monarchy with, at first, the Commonwealth of England (1649–1653) and then the Protectorate under the personal rule of Oliver Cromwell (1653–1658) and briefly his son Richard (1658–1659). In England, the monopoly of the Church of England on Christian worship was ended, while in Ireland the victors consolidated the established Protestant Ascendancy. Constitutionally, the wars established the precedent that an English monarch cannot govern without Parliament's consent, although the idea of Parliamentary sovereignty was only legally established as part of the Glorious Revolution in 1688.[2]

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