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    The Monmouth Rebellion, also known as the Pitchfork Rebellion, the Revolt of the West or the West Country rebellion, was an attempt to depose James II...
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    unsuccessful Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, an attempt to depose his uncle King James II and VII. After one of his officers declared Monmouth the legitimate...
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    Battle of Sedgemoor (category Monmouth Rebellion)
    between the Kingdom of England and rebels led by the Duke of Monmouth during the Monmouth rebellion, fought on 6 July 1685, and took place at Westonzoyland...
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    himself into the small party which looked to James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth ("Monmouth") to take the throne, an (illegitimate but recognised) son of Charles...
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    Duke of Monmouth in 1685 following the Monmouth Rebellion against James II of England.[clarification needed] Until her decommissioning, Monmouth carried...
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    on 21 July 1683, and James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, on 15 July 1685, after the Monmouth Rebellion. Ketch's notoriety stems from "barbarity at the...
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  • Nathaniel Wade (category Monmouth Rebellion)
    conspirator implicated in the Rye House Plot and participant in the Monmouth Rebellion. Nathaniel Wade, born around 1666, was the third son of John Wade...
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  • Jack Cade's Rebellion (1450) – in England Cornish Rebellion of 1497 – in England Monmouth Rebellion (1685) – in England, The Monmouth Rebellion, also known...
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    Captain Blood (novel) (category Fiction about the Monmouth Rebellion)
    town prepares to fight for James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. He wants no part in the rebellion, but while attending to some of the rebels wounded at...
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    Bloody Assizes (category Monmouth Rebellion)
    1685 in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion in England. There were five judges: Sir William Montague (Lord Chief...
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    for never having lost a battle. Churchill's role in defeating the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 helped secure James on the throne, but he was a key player...
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    church, becoming the Wigtown martyrs. June 11 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II of England...
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    Bussex Rhine (category Monmouth Rebellion)
    ground. During the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion the king's forces were camped at the rhyne. The rebels under the Duke of Monmouth attempted a surprise night...
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    Charles II's death in February 1685, the Duke of Monmouth, his illegitimate son, led the Monmouth Rebellion, landing with three ships at Lyme Regis in Dorset...
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    Rye House Plot (category Rebellions in England)
    searches for arms. The plot presaged, and may have hastened, the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion and Argyll's Rising. After the Restoration of the monarchy under Charles...
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  • The Peasants' Revolt Jack the Ripper The Vikings The Welsh Rebellions The Monmouth Rebellion The Witchfinder General The Siege of Rochester The Body Snatchers...
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    the Great's rise to power, and later the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion. In the later medieval period its wealth allowed its monasteries and...
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    of Monmouth, and the couple had six children, only two of whom survived past infancy. Her husband was executed after losing the Monmouth Rebellion, and...
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    Andrew Fletcher (patriot) (category Monmouth Rebellion)
    promoting insurrection. He was appointed the cavalry commander of the Monmouth Rebellion, but shortly after landing in England, he killed another leading figure...
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    Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) was an armed conflict in 1675–1676 between a group of indigenous...
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  • Christopher Jones. "UK Battlefields Resource Centre – Viking – Monmouth's Rebellion". www.battlefieldstrust.com. Retrieved 2017-04-15.{{cite web}}: CS1...
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    survived and it played a minor role in the English Civil War and Monmouth Rebellion. In the later 17th and early 18th centuries many of the remaining...
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  • who was executed for harbouring fugitives after the defeat of the Monmouth Rebellion at the Battle of Sedgemoor. While she seems to have leaned to Royalism...
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  • English Civil War, and played a prominent part in suppressing the Monmouth Rebellion. After being the first English militia regiment to reform in 1758...
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    Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton (category Monmouth Rebellion)
    II's coronation, Grafton was Lord High Constable. During the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth he commanded the royal troops in Somerset. However, he later...
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    its 17th-century involvement in both the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion. In the 19th century, transport infrastructure improved with stations...
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    1st Duke of Monmouth, eldest illegitimate son of Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, who would lead the Monmouth Rebellion married Anne...
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    Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville (category Monmouth Rebellion)
    to France. He later became one of the leaders of the Monmouth Rebellion, landing with Monmouth at Lyme Regis in June 1685. He was in command of the cavalry...
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    During Bathurst's long tenure the cathedral was restored, but in the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, Puritan soldiers damaged the west front, tore lead from the...
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