Cornwall played a significant role in the English Civil War, being a Royalist enclave in the generally Parliamentarian south-west. The English Civil War...
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in, and resulting from the English Civil Wars. 1626 – Parliament dismisses George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham from command of English forces in Europe;...
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The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from...
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The Second English Civil War took place between February and August 1648 in England and Wales. It forms part of the series of conflicts known collectively...
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The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. An estimated...
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During the English Civil War (1642–1651), Bristol was a key port on the west coast of England and considered strategically important by both Royalists...
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Standard Written Form: Aberfala) is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total...
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Cornish people (redirect from People from Cornwall)
The Cornish people or Cornish (Cornish: Kernowyon, Old English: Cornƿīelisċ) are an ethnic group native to, or associated with Cornwall and a recognised...
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area in the English Civil War. Significant sieges include those at Corfe Castle and Sherborne Castle. Dorset was majority Royalist, except for in Lyme...
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Battle of Braddock Down (category Battles of the English Civil Wars)
The Battle of Braddock Down took place during the south-western campaign of the First English Civil War. It was fought on open ground in Cornwall, on...
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Battle of Gunnislake New Bridge (category Battles of the English Civil Wars)
and Devon, during the First English Civil War. During the Civil War the county of Cornwall was entirely loyal to King Charles I and the Royalist cause....
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been legally considered to exist. The origins of the war can be found in the English Civil War, fought between the Royalists and Parliamentarians from...
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Worcestershire was the county where the first battle and last battle of the English Civil War took place. The first battle, the Battle of Powick Bridge...
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Cornish dialect (redirect from Cornish English)
Parliamentarians and Royalists, polarised the populations of England and Wales. However, Cornwall in the English Civil War was a staunchly Royalist enclave, an...
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Battle of Lostwithiel (category Battles of the English Civil Wars)
valley in Cornwall during the First English Civil War. A Royalist army led by Charles I of England defeated a Parliamentarian force commanded by the Earl...
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England English Civil War Cornwall in the English Civil War Restoration (England) Great Britain, Ireland and the colonies British Interregnum Wars of the Three...
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Holsworthy. It was also the name of one of ten ancient administrative hundreds of Cornwall. The Battle of Stratton during the English Civil War took place here...
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Tintagel (redirect from Tintagel, Cornwall, England)
Tre war Venydh, meaning Village on a Mountain) is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village...
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in a personal union under Charles I. They include the 1639 to 1640 Bishops' Wars, the First and Second English Civil Wars, the Irish Confederate Wars...
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The Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652), also known as the Third Civil War, was the final conflict in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of armed conflicts...
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New Cornish Tertia (category Military units and formations of the English Civil War)
Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet in 1644, during the English Civil War. As the maps aside show, Cornwall and Wales were staunch Royalist strongholds whilst...
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During the first English Civil War, Tarvin, a village in Cheshire, England, was garrisoned by both sides and was attacked by both sides, because its proximity...
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Bevil Grenville (category People killed in the English Civil War)
When the First English Civil War broke out in August 1642, he joined the Royalists and played a leading role in their early campaigns in the West Country...
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the English Civil War in Shropshire. Politically, the English county of Shropshire was predominantly Royalist at the start of the civil war. Of the county's...
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John Trevanion (category People killed in the English Civil War)
was killed in action in the English Civil War. Trevanion was the son of Charles Trevanion of Caerhayes in Cornwall and his wife Amia Mallet. Trevanion...
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and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the middle stage of the River Tamar, which constitutes almost the entire...
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is a civil parish and town in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is on the Penryn River about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Falmouth. The population...
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Sir John Trelawny, 1st Baronet (category Military history of Cornwall)
Trelawne, Cornwall. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall. A Royalist MP, he fought for Charles I in the English Civil War. John Trelawny was born in Hall, near...
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Mousehole (redirect from Mousehole, Cornwall)
port in Cornwall, England, UK. It is approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Penzance on the shore of Mount's Bay. The village is in the civil parish...
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civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former...
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