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Title: The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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fled and furious, the King determined to make Parliament bend to hiswill through the use of military force. It must not be supposed that he didnot have a large number of friends, and his confidence in his strength wouldseem to have been warranted. While England had no standing army, everycounty had a large body of militia, which was legally under the control of theKing, and Parliament now insisted that he should resign that control into itshands. He refused, flung his standard to the breeze at Nottingham, August22, 1642, and the civil war began. In this lamentable strife the opponents were Royalists and Parliamentarians,or more popularly Cavaliers and Roundheads, the latter name being applied tothe Puritans, who, to show their contempt of the prevailing fashion of longhair, wore their own cropped short. They were commanded by an able officefin Robert, Earl of Essex, a son of the favorite whom Elizabeth had caused tobe executed. He met the Royalists at Edgehill, in Warwickshire, on the
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England—^The Civil War 1061 23d of October, and fought an indecisive battle. The commander of theCavaliers was Prince Rupert, son of the Queen of Bohemia, and nephew of theKing, a brave, dashing officer, whose practice of looting caused many to lookupon his acts with disfavor. The King was well provided with gentlemancavalry, whose horses were much superior to those of the raw levies of theParliamentarians; but he had insufficient artillery and ammunition. TheQueen, who had withdrawn to Holland, sold her own and the crown jewels, andbought considerable ammunition, which she sent to him. She herself returnedto England in February, 1643, with four ships, and landed at Bridlington, wherethe house in which she lodged was bombarded so hotly that she had to runoutside and take refuge in a ditch. A few months later the gallant patriot,Hampden, was killed in a skirmish with Prince Rupert. In this civil war, it may be said that the western half of England stood bythe King, while the eastern

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