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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
Second Barons' War in England, the Royals on the left vs. the Barons on the right.(British Library, Royal 16 G VI f. 427v)This is a list of civil wars that have occurred in the history of England.
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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.
16 May – First English Civil War: Royalist victory at the Battle of Stratton confirms dominance in Cornwall and Devon. 21 May – First English Civil War: Capture of Wakefield by an outnumbered force of Parliamentarians from the Royalist defenders. [3] 14 June – Licensing Order of 1643 passed by Parliament to censor newspapers. [2]
The Confederates' War (1642-1648) English Civil War (1642–1651) First English Civil War (1642–1646) – 190,000 Englishmen died [3] Civil War in Scotland (1644–1647) Second English Civil War (1648) Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–53) – Cromwell killed 300,000 to 500,000 Irish in his invasion [3] Third English Civil War (1650–1651)
Battle of Agincourt was a major English victory in the Hundred Years' War that occurred on Saint Crispin's Day, near modern-day Azincourt, in northern France. 1421 6 December Henry VI, the future king of England (r. 1422~1471), is born to parents Henry V and Catherine of Valois. 1442 28 April
The First English Civil War battle of Lansdowne, or Lansdown, was fought on 5 July 1643, at Lansdowne Hill, near Bath, Somerset, England.Although the Royalists under Lord Hopton forced the Parliamentarians under Sir William Waller to retreat from their hilltop position, they suffered so many casualties themselves and were left so disordered and short of ammunition that an injured Hopton was ...