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3 unusual facts about Second English Civil War


Second English Civil War

On 3 June 1647 Cornet George Joyce of Thomas Fairfax's horse seized the King for the Army, after which the English Presbyterians and the Scots began to prepare for a fresh civil war, less than two years after the conclusion of the First Civil War this time against "Independency", as embodied in the Army.

Only in South Wales, Essex, and the north of England was there serious fighting.

Disbanded soldiers continued to join him in April, all South Wales revolted, and eventually he was joined by Major-General Rowland Laugharne, his district commander, and Colonel Rice Powell



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