The Great Fire off London Did you know that the Great Fire of London of September 1666 was one of the most famous incidents in Stuart England. It was the second tragedy to hit the city in the space of 12 months. Just as the city was recovering from the Great Plague‚ the inhabitants had to flee the city once again – this time not as a result of a disease‚ but the result of as human accident. The Great Fire of London‚ arguably‚ left a far greater mark on the city when compared to the plague.
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and Viscount Althorp). Her family descended from the Stuart kings Charles II and James II. Her grandmother had been a lady-in waiting to Elizabeth‚ the Queen Mother. She had two older sisters‚ Sarah and Jane and a younger brother Charles. As a child‚ Diana lived a life of luxury‚ living in a ten-room mansion on the queen ’s country estate in Sandringham‚ Norfolk. Her future husband‚ Charles‚ Prince of Wales‚ lived next door. Charles‚ however‚ was twelve years older than Diana‚ so she was more acquainted
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Oliver Cromwell was the second ruler of England after Charles the 1st execution. He did not want to take the title King so he became the Lord Protector. He became a ruler only because of how corrupt the parliament was. He was a very religious man he was a puritan and he thought that everyone should live their lives in his example‚ as a puritan he believed that if you worked hard you would go to heaven and pointless enjoyment was a bad thing. This was the reason for why he shut down a lot of inns
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1646; the second lasted from the year 1648 to 1649; and the third war‚ which was the last war‚ lasted from 1649 to 1651. Both the first and the second war were made up of the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament‚ and the last war was between The supporters of King Charles II against the supporters
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the 17th century. He used the word to denote the committee of the Privy Council. In addition to ‘Cabinet’ another word was used during the reign of Charles Ӏ known as cabinet council. The special persons or group of people with whom king Charles Ӏ sat on the Privy Council known as ‘Cabinet Council.’ After the execution of the king Charles Ӏ‚ Charles ӀӀ sat on the throne and crowned through restoration in 1660. He was from the House of Stuart and during his reign‚ there was also something like cabinet
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collapsed Cromwell´s son –Richard Cromwell is not a good leader. Richard invited Charles II. back Charles II. Charles II. returned as publicly accepted king The laws and Acts of Cromwell´s government were automatically cancelled Parliament is weak Those responsible for Charles I.´s execution are punished Catholicism‚ the Crown and the new constitutional monarchy Charles II. wanted to make peace between religious groups Wanted to allow Puritans and Cathlics
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1646. The factors that caused their defeat were Cromwell ’s talent for warfare and how he displayed it on the battlefield. The factions of the royalist command structure tearing the royalist campaign in two. The formation of the New Model Army. King Charles alienating many possible supporters of him with his decisions leading up to and including the civil war. Propaganda helping the parliamentarian cause during the English civil war. The affect of dual roles as King and Commander in Chief of Royalist
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Puritans think Cromwell was a hero because Cromwell‚ Himself was a puritan. During the war the soldiers thought he was a hero so they made him cheaf-in-command. The Church of England and Catholics thought that Cromwell was a villain. When Cromwell brought the army into parliament‚ many M.P’s thought he was behaving like Charles 1 and ruling through the army‚ and being tyrant. In source B it says that‚ the kings army ran away from them and his command had beaten all the Prince’s horses. Cromwell
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discoveries made were primarily about anatomy and physiology‚ not about cures and treatments‚ and that even though people had proven Galen to be wrong about several things‚ they still wouldn’t let the four humours theory go. This meant that when King Charles II became ill even the best physicians in the country couldn’t save him which just shows that medicine didn’t advance very much from the renaissance. The main reason that the renaissance didn’t make a significant difference to medicine was that the
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that was fought between the troops who supported King James II‚ and the troops in favor of James Scott‚ the 1st Duke of Monmouth‚ who was the nephew of the newly appointed King James II. The battle of Sedgemoor and the incidents leading up to the battle took form due to what was thought to be a faulty claim led by James II to his brother’s‚ Charles II’s‚ throne. James Scott‚ the 1st Duke of Monmouth‚ was the illegitimate son of Charles II and believed‚ along with the rest of the Monmouth‚ that he
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