The lack of military experience in the English establishment showed itself immediately in the Civil War. It took time to work out command structures and to devise tactics for use in battle. In the opening weeks neither side seemed to have a workable strategy. Both sides, once they had taken ...
Also included are letters from the Royalist exiles, including the future King Charles II and letters to and from other notable figures of the time including Queen Henrietta Maria, Montrose and Oliver Cromwell. The period covered by the letters is the turning point of the Civil War and enables...
You can tell because it has an ugly flat chest and does not dip much towards the groin in front, and because it does not have the giant square tassets which were fashionable during the English Civil War / Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Pollaxes ("battle-axes" to a 16th century Englishma...
English Civil Wars. From the philosophies of Margaret Cavendish, to the prophetic writings of Sarah Wight, to the poems of Katherine Philips, the words of women surrounded every sphere of life in the early modern period, yet are disregarded in most historical discussions of early monumental ...
The English Civil War D155英国内战 D155.ppt,* * The English Civil War 1629-1660 The Stuart Monarchy Causes of the War James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England in 1603 He agreed to uphold the Protestant religion He wrote the King James version of
We collect and record films that have as their topic the civil war and, as senders-producers, Greek directors of the same time period. Thus, the Greek civil war can be read as a historic/social/political event through the channel of cinema. In the most historic discourses about the civil...
New Model Army, army formed in February 1645 that won the English Civil War for Parliament and itself came to exercise important political power. When war broke out in 1642, Parliament had at its command the local militia, or trainbands, of those distric
When the civil war officially began in August 1642, Royalist forces (called Cavaliers) dominated northern and western England, whereas Parliamentarians (or Roundheads) ruled the south and east. By early 1643, the king’s armies looked to be gaining the upper hand, especially after allying with...
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TheperiodoftheEnglishBourgeoisRevolution SocialBackground DuringtheTudorDynasty(1485-1603),theEnglishbourgeoisielivedinharmonywiththecrown.Theyhavethecommoninterestinfacingboththeirinternalandexternalfoes:strugglesagainstSpain,againsttheRomanCatholicChurch,againstthenoblehousesruiningthecountrywiththeircivilwars....