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This category contains historical battles fought as part of the English Civil Wars (1642–1651). Please see the category guidelines for more information. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battles of the English Civil Wars .
21 March, Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold the last pitched battle of the First Civil War is a victory for the New Model Army 13 April, Siege of Exeter ended with the surrender of Royalist garrison. 5 May, Charles surrendered to a Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire
Third English Civil War (1650–52) – the supporters of King Charles II against the supporters of the Rump Parliament; Jacobite Rebellions –A Civil war in England, Scotland, and Ireland fought over many years to restore the House of Stuart to the British throne.
The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England [b] from 1642 to 1651. Part of the wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the struggle consisted of the First English Civil War and the Second English Civil War.
Battle of Adwalton Moor – 1643 – English Civil War; Battle of Aegina – 458 BCE – First Peloponnesian War; Battle of Aegospotami – 405 BCE – Peloponnesian War; Battle of Agincourt – 1415 – Hundred Years' War; Battle of Agnadello (a.k.a. Battle of Vaila) – 1509 – Italian Wars; Battle of Agusan Hill – 1900 – Philippine ...
Civil War, Parliamentarian victory. Bishops' Wars (1639) Covenanters defeat Scottish Royalists and England; Second Bishops' War (1640) Covenanters defeat Scottish Royalists and England; Irish Rebellion of 1641. Founding of the Irish Catholic Confederation and beginning of the Irish Confederate Wars; First English Civil War (1642–46)
First Indochina War begins; Greek Civil War (1946–1948) Kingdom of Greece United Kingdom United States D.S.E. (Δ.Σ.Ε.) Albania Yugoslavia Bulgaria. British Allied victory Communist forces defeated, many D.S.E. soldiers exiled in Eastern Europe. Battalion of UK troops still in Greece until 1948 Corfu Channel incident (1946–1948)
The siege of Colchester occurred in the summer of 1648 when the Second English Civil War reignited in several areas of Britain. Colchester found itself in the thick of the unrest when a Royalist army on its way through East Anglia to raise support for the King, was attacked by Lord-General Thomas Fairfax at the head of a Parliamentary force.