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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.
Third English Civil War (1650–52) – the supporters of King Charles II against the supporters of the Rump Parliament; Jacobite Rebellions –A Civil war in England, Scotland, and Ireland fought over many years to restore the House of Stuart to the British throne.
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
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. [a] An estimated 15% to 20% of adult males in England and Wales served in the military at some point between 1639 and 1653, while around 4% of the total population died from war-related causes.
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms Article by Jane Ohlmeyer arguing that the English Civil War was just one of an interlocking set of conflicts that encompassed the British Isles in the mid-17th century; Celtic Dimensions of the British Civil Wars at History Ireland; Englishcivilwar.org News, comment and discussion about the English Civil War
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First Indochina War begins; Greek Civil War (1946–1948) Kingdom of Greece United Kingdom United States D.S.E. (Δ.Σ.Ε.) Albania Yugoslavia Bulgaria. British Allied victory Communist forces defeated, many D.S.E. soldiers exiled in Eastern Europe. Battalion of UK troops still in Greece until 1948 Corfu Channel incident (1946–1948)
Civil War, Parliamentarian victory. Bishops' Wars (1639) Covenanters defeat Scottish Royalists and England; Second Bishops' War (1640) Covenanters defeat Scottish Royalists and England; Irish Rebellion of 1641. Founding of the Irish Catholic Confederation and beginning of the Irish Confederate Wars; First English Civil War (1642–46)