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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.
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
How the Scots Won the English Civil War: The Triumph of Fraser's Dragoons. The History Press, 2013. Manganiello, Stephen C. The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1639–1660. Newman, P.R. Atlas of the English Civil War. Routledge, 2005. Reese, Peter. Cromwell's Masterstroke: Dunbar 1650. Pen and ...
The siege of York in 1644 was a prolonged contest for York during the First English Civil War, between the Scottish Covenanter army and the Parliamentarian armies of the Northern Association and Eastern Association, and the Royalist Army under the Marquess of Newcastle.
Despite defeat in the First English Civil War, Charles I retained significant political power. This allowed him to create an alliance with Scots Covenanters and Parliamentarian moderates to restore him to the English throne. The result was the 1648 Second English Civil War, in which he was defeated once again.
The Parliament of Scotland votes in favour of war with England on behalf of the King. [1] The Parliament of England passes an act against blasphemy. [3] 8 May – Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of St. Fagans. [1] 1 June – Second English Civil War: Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Maidstone. [1]
Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638–1660. Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-11564-1. Willis-Bund, John William (1905). The Civil War in Worcestershire 1642–1646 and the Scotch invasion of 1651. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company. "Worcestershire". Worcestershire County Council. Archived from the original on 2 April 2007.
The siege of Carlisle occurred during the First English Civil War when the allied forces of the Scottish Covenanters and the English Parliamentarians besieged Carlisle Castle which was held at the time by the English Royalist forces loyal to King Charles I. The siege took place in Carlisle, Cumbria from October 1644 to 25 June 1645.