Preston 1648 - Cromwell Ends the English Civil War - DOCUMENTARY

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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  ปีที่แล้ว +41

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    • @AnimalWorld-wu2qo
      @AnimalWorld-wu2qo ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I want an episode on the sieges Vienna 1683

    • @blackflagsnroses6013
      @blackflagsnroses6013 ปีที่แล้ว

      Will you be covering the Levellers and True Levellers (Diggers) extensively. They’re my favorite factions of this tumultuous period and the most modern

    • @blackflagsnroses6013
      @blackflagsnroses6013 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@klyanadkmorr historically it’s mostly due to religious affiliation and alignment. There weren’t any nationalist sentiments in this period. Scots were Presbyterian and the monarch astutely allied with their interests. I’m not sure what the Welsh supported but it’s likely also religious.

    • @SuccessCreed
      @SuccessCreed ปีที่แล้ว

      Any chance for a video about Lycurgus

    • @DepressedMusicEnjoyer
      @DepressedMusicEnjoyer ปีที่แล้ว

      So established titles was a scam

  • @Punaeased
    @Punaeased ปีที่แล้ว +521

    That's right kids, after the war Cromwell retired from the military, and had a peaceful career as head of the Irish tourism board.

    • @FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv
      @FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv ปีที่แล้ว +70

      If only. I do wish Cromwell had managed to form an actual republic, man just ended up being a king in all but name, a dictator.

    • @ZolaMagic25
      @ZolaMagic25 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ha cough ha

    • @barbiquearea
      @barbiquearea ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv And he was extremely unpopular during his reign as Lord Protector. To the point where after his death the exhumed his corpse, which was given a mock execution to cheering crowds.

    • @brokenbridge6316
      @brokenbridge6316 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nice joke b taylor. It gave me a nice chuckle.

    • @shinsenshogun900
      @shinsenshogun900 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Alas, his surname could not become immortalized as that of Caesar's, and of Octavian's too

  • @augustvonmackensen3902
    @augustvonmackensen3902 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    My teacher had a saying when he taught the ECW at school.
    The Battle of Marston Moor cost Charles the North.
    The Battle of Naseby cost him his army.
    The Battle of Preston cost him his head!
    Another great vid!

  • @charles588
    @charles588 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The Barn on my family farm was the headquarters for Cromwell at the Battle of Winwick

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Love these kind of wars, modern but not too modern. Guns and cannons are there, but fights are still won with steel.

    • @thefinal9923
      @thefinal9923 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      It really is that sweet spot in compelling historical battles.

    • @normtrooper4392
      @normtrooper4392 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@thefinal9923 really wish the next total war would cover this period

    • @thefinal9923
      @thefinal9923 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@normtrooper4392 I'm kind of devoted to more traditional battles for total wars, but sadly they're really pushing away from that. I enjoy Warhammer for being what it is, but the fact is it sucks graphically and for anybody who actually cares about realism. The handgunners are awful and projectiles are basically wet noodles.
      But I'm very bitter.

    • @jonbaxter2254
      @jonbaxter2254 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@normtrooper4392 Yes!

    • @dstaff7373
      @dstaff7373 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right Just Imagine Taking a Speer To Your Face Lodging into Your Eye socket, still alive for a Few Longer Agonizing Moments getting Trampled by Your Fellow Men. Or Being Captured Totured for Muse with Your Penis being Nibbled on by Starving Mice in a Bucket 🪣 Strapped to your Crotch...

  • @chickenfist1554
    @chickenfist1554 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Apparently there was going to be a battle in Corby, Northamptonshire but on the morning of the battle they noticed the wheels on all the cannons had been nicked

  • @AvelinFF
    @AvelinFF ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The map of Lancashire preceding the Battle of Preston is a bit suspect. Blackpool basically didn't exist at this time period (certainly not as anything larger than a tiny hamlet), and Preston is a bit too far west-northwest of where it actually is - the town of Kirkham is actually about where "Preston" is on this map.

  • @High_rise12
    @High_rise12 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    Could you cover Cromwell’s campaign in Ireland, it came just after Charles’ execution and has a ton of sieges and great battles.

    • @tatarcavalry2342
      @tatarcavalry2342 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      damn man spoilers

    • @High_rise12
      @High_rise12 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@tatarcavalry2342oops

    • @hammer3721
      @hammer3721 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      A lot of brutal massacres of civilians as well...

    • @rtk3543
      @rtk3543 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@hammer3721 What rubbish.

    • @High_rise12
      @High_rise12 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@hammer3721 also true, it shows the darker side of Cromwell.

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I'll tell you the more I watch the history channels I'm subscribed to. The more I find out things I didn't know about subjects I thought I did. Thanks and keep up the great work

  • @PakBallandSami
    @PakBallandSami ปีที่แล้ว +48

    “Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man who would keep all wine out of the country, lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon a supposition he may abuse it. When he doth abuse it, judge.”
    ― Oliver Cromwell

  • @hananreldy2227
    @hananreldy2227 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Great series! 👍 Fascinating to know that the UK was once a republic.
    I hope that you continue making videos of the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War. Videos about War of Devolution and Nine Years' War would be great. 👍

    • @rantymcrant-pants9536
      @rantymcrant-pants9536 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The UK was never a republic. It will be come the UK about 50 years after this battle.
      England was a republic, sort of, for about 11 years (1649-60)

    • @theawesomeman9821
      @theawesomeman9821 ปีที่แล้ว

      The UK was an arisotrocy not a republic

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was never a republic, they simply removed the monarchy from power. The aristocracy and landowning class still held all the power-Parliament and the nobility were the same thing for the most part.
      Cromwell was offered the crown but he refused, taking the title Lord Protector, a title normally held when a king is absent from the throne (equivalent is Guardian of Scotland).
      England, Scotland and Ireland were still kingdoms, simply without a king.

    • @Hugh_Morris
      @Hugh_Morris ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It was a military dictatorship in reality, Cromwell even had the power of a King.

    • @louisbaker4362
      @louisbaker4362 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      For those not in the know. A republic is just a non-monarchic form of government. A dictatorship is still a republic. Modern examples of this are Pinochet's Chile, Franco's Spain, Pol Pots Cambodia, modern China etc.

  • @thewiseguy6750
    @thewiseguy6750 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Awesome content and thank you so much for your effort guys!
    However, because you are working on multiple projects at the same time, I often find myself forgetting about the previous episodes until the next one comes and that can be a little frustrating.
    Just my two cents, thanks again for all that you do!

  • @isabelsinclair2899
    @isabelsinclair2899 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Could you you do one about James Graham? The Marquise of Montrose? Think people would be fascinated.
    "......for the covenants a Campbell mare that rides across the law. And er a Stewart bridles her, a Grahams head must fall."

  • @ThmSphone
    @ThmSphone ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I had to rewatch half of this video, the sight of "Spanish Netherlands" made me rethink life

  • @leninedison5214
    @leninedison5214 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hope you continue the story of cromwell untill the end. Looking forward to it

  • @giod6266
    @giod6266 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    This is really interesting military historical period, I like it very much. Thank you!

  • @abnerdoon4902
    @abnerdoon4902 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Perfect timing, just finished the previous episodes yesterday.

  • @loupiscanis9449
    @loupiscanis9449 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you , K&G .
    🐺

  • @Cloud759star
    @Cloud759star ปีที่แล้ว +33

    This is taught in our primary schools in Preston. Mega proud of it.
    That and being an ethnic ludites 🤣

    • @DaZzeRGaming
      @DaZzeRGaming ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ahaha I was amazed when this video came up as I’m from Preston 😂
      However on the map they got the location of Preston a tiny bit north than it should be

  • @filipgradinariu7925
    @filipgradinariu7925 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Please make more videos about Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth DELUGE (Stefan Czarniecki, John II Casimir) and Ioan Sobieski- siege of Viena etc

    • @Artur_M.
      @Artur_M. ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I second that, but I would love to see them going even further back and making a series about Jan Zamoyski.

  • @theawesomeman9821
    @theawesomeman9821 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    With King Charles' story now completed will the channel cover how his descendant Prince Bonnie and the Jacobites tried to restore the Stuart dynasty?

  • @uraidtariq12
    @uraidtariq12 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    The history videos you make are amazing. So so much better than any detailed long documentaries that are not even available for free.

  • @carlcromwell8713
    @carlcromwell8713 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for this presentation!

  • @kaloyanradkov8962
    @kaloyanradkov8962 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Have almost 2x the number of troops as your enemy.
    Don't scout efficently.
    Get told that you are being attacked and completely ignore it.
    GET Destroyed.....

  • @kylecollinson6782
    @kylecollinson6782 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I actually live in longridge, it was supposedly named by Oliver Cromwell due to it being on a “long” “ridge”.

    • @jamesfearn7757
      @jamesfearn7757 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some nice hills round there. Also an interesting little castle with a hole blown in the keep down road in Clitheroe

  • @collintrytsman3353
    @collintrytsman3353 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    excellent as always

  • @TheTimer81
    @TheTimer81 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another great video about an interesting time period. Carry on your work. Tnx for your Projekt.

  • @retrodude1131
    @retrodude1131 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great summary of the period!
    Though I have a minor correction: the Parliamentarian commander at the Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold was named Sir William Brereton, not Richard Brereton.
    He had been besieging Chester earlier in the war, and at Stow-on-the-Wold he was accompanied by Colonel Thomas Morgan when they defeated Astley.

  • @HiddenCityUK
    @HiddenCityUK ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another brilliant video K&G, one thing I did notice is that you do not have a video on the Russian revolution, would be lovely to see a documentary on that!

  • @mullenio4200
    @mullenio4200 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Winwick is pronounced 'Winnick'.
    Glad to see this channel visit locations near me. 😁

    • @michaelbell6916
      @michaelbell6916 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Got married in winwick church

  • @SuperClloyd
    @SuperClloyd ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a resident of Taunton and surrounding areas. I can confirm, Taunton is not a city. Definitely a town. And Bridgwater has no 'e'.

  • @andrejparunovic
    @andrejparunovic ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please do a whole ep on just the trial 😫

  • @lomax343
    @lomax343 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    14:20 - Colchester is in Essex, not Kent.
    The siege of Colchester is - allegedly - the source of a nursery rhyme. The Royalist defenders (all the King's men) had a squat mortar nicknamed Humpty Dumpty (at the time, a common nickname for any fat person). The hoisted this up onto the tower of a church that was built into the old Roman walls (Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall). The Parliamentary artillery targeted the tower and damaged it, causing Humpty Dumpty to "have a great fall." The mortar could not be brought back into action, and the garrison surrendered shortly afterwards.
    To this day, you an see the extent of the damage to the tower, as it was repaired with slightly different-coloured bricks.

  • @rodchallis8031
    @rodchallis8031 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So I guess the takeaway from all this is that in spite of all the advice and intrigue, Charles just couldn't keep...ahead... of events.

  • @briarperkins4767
    @briarperkins4767 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hands down, best TH-cam channel

  • @dandylion7745
    @dandylion7745 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Commenting for the algorithm and feeling bad I have nothing more to contribute to my favorite channel

  • @stormyblizzard124
    @stormyblizzard124 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome 🎉video

  • @jackland3387
    @jackland3387 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video, thanks

  • @enstamud
    @enstamud ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those ditches referred to in this video are most definitely not irrigation ditches
    They are to carry water away. Aka drainage ditches

  • @t.jmaddog2188
    @t.jmaddog2188 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've learned so much from your channel a little more than from the class room.

  • @broadsword6650
    @broadsword6650 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Got to love the map at 16:10, which shows Preston in the wrong place and depicts Blackpool as being bigger than either Preston or Lancaster when, at the time, it was a fishing village of about 8 cottages!

    • @Fyrd_Productions
      @Fyrd_Productions หลายเดือนก่อน

      It would have more sense to show Poulton le fylde, Rossal or perhaps even Fleetwood seen as they were the larger villages of the area

    • @broadsword6650
      @broadsword6650 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Fyrd_Productions Rossall, possibly, but Fleetwood wasn't anything until the 1830s, as it was a planned and purpose built coastal resort and port.

  • @EdMcF1
    @EdMcF1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2:30 See the plucky Royalist town of Newark-upon-Trent in the English Midlands, the last Royalist garrison to surrender, even after the King himself. A quite attractive town today, with the ruined castle and a fine square.

  • @uncitoyen_8614
    @uncitoyen_8614 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I see in Cromwell a kind of British Napoleon in some political aspects.

  • @markusskram4181
    @markusskram4181 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another interesting video

  • @wapak1709
    @wapak1709 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this video.

  • @tigerboy1966
    @tigerboy1966 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Pronunciation note from a local: it's "Winnick", not "Win-wick"

    • @thevoid7414
      @thevoid7414 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ha Ha I knew somone would point that out before me. I prefer the name Battle of Red Bank myself though. But to be honest, I'm just glad it got a mention because from the title, I was thinking they were going to claim that Preston was the final action..

  • @spookydigit
    @spookydigit ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Big up the ribble Valley where I live aha realising I live in Clitheroe and not knowing the history is great!!

  • @TheVideoNorm
    @TheVideoNorm ปีที่แล้ว

    Jolly good show!

  • @knightofhistory
    @knightofhistory ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this channel, it is so interesting and makes subjects that perhaps wouldn't be entirely enticing very catching and enjoyable. I hope one day my channel (also a history channel) will be as gripping as yours! Best the Knight of History.

  • @samwill7259
    @samwill7259 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Civil War is over!
    And somehow shit actually gets WORSE from here
    Cromwell: A fun sponge so A1 tier that he can make an entire country a decade long buzzkill

  • @generaladvance5812
    @generaladvance5812 ปีที่แล้ว

    A very strange conflict all in all. A weird mesh of old & new with pikemen & artillery being engaged at the same time.

  • @michaelbell6916
    @michaelbell6916 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live in Warrington and we have a statue of Oliver Cromwell near bridge foot

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 ปีที่แล้ว

    It would be nice to see video's on what Cromwell did after the English Civil Wars. Because they're just as interesting. Nice video.

  • @jaythompson5102
    @jaythompson5102 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Imagine how those covenentors must have felt having the King of England as your prisoner.

    • @chrisgibson5267
      @chrisgibson5267 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Sadly I must play the pedantic old bore card.
      Being the king of England did not and does not mean that you are an English king.
      Charles I was a Scot, born in Scotland with a Scottish father and a Danish mother.
      Thanks to the accession of his father James to the English throne, he was the king of three Kingdoms, and ruler of Wales, which they regarded as a principality.
      He was the king of Scotland and Ireland as well as England.
      Imagine being an English Parliamentarian who has seen the fears of Parliament that James would attempt to rule England in the same way as he ruled Scotland realised in his son Charles.
      Your country has endured a civil war, and Charles tries again to take control and rule as a divinely ordained king.
      He is in your hands because after he had been defeated, he believed that his fellow countrymen would treat him better than the English Parliament, and he placed himself in their mercy.
      They promptly sold him to the English for £100,000 and the promise of even more money in the near future.
      So the Scots handed him over to you, and he continued to plot and scheme, despite being offered very generous terms.
      The Scots invade again and are defeated at Preston and Winwick.
      Little wonder he was known as that man of blood.

    • @gchecosse
      @gchecosse ปีที่แล้ว +3

      King of Scotland, the Covenanters were Scottish

  • @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf
    @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Go the Levellers

  • @iexist3919
    @iexist3919 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Will you continue the Byzantine reconquista series?

  • @Darryl_Francis
    @Darryl_Francis ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Prince Rupert knew that he could not realistically hold Bristol for long, he made an unfortunate but nonetheless sound tactical decision to withdraw that not only saved the lives of his men, but also spared the city from further destruction.

  • @ridleyscurry2480
    @ridleyscurry2480 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Busy shooting themselves in the foot", that was pretty funny for some reason

  • @michaelr3583
    @michaelr3583 ปีที่แล้ว

    I see your Napoleon in Italy series Epic History and raise you an Oliver Cromwell English Civil War campaign -
    Kings and Generals

  • @Falkriim
    @Falkriim ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting

  • @mkdes40
    @mkdes40 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you. I finally understood the cause of the Putney debates, and how the king ended up on the Scottish side.

  • @c.w.simpsonproductions1230
    @c.w.simpsonproductions1230 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You guys should really do The Anarchy next. There's surprisingly little out there about it.

  • @markusskram4181
    @markusskram4181 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool vid

  • @sandraaparecidasebanicastr4236
    @sandraaparecidasebanicastr4236 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Infelizmente não ha legenda em português. Infelizmente não falo ingles. Mas amo sr. Oliver cromwell

  • @lerneanlion
    @lerneanlion ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Will this eventually led to the King's execution to be featured on this channel?

  • @augustosolari7721
    @augustosolari7721 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oliver's army is here to stay
    Oliver's army are on their way
    And I would rather be anywhere else
    But here today

  • @WizardsandWarriors
    @WizardsandWarriors ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Who Were Beren and Lúthien? th-cam.com/video/_ACRCNhAaT8/w-d-xo.html

  • @rajatmohan83
    @rajatmohan83 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a question for you guys. Why didn’t you guys made any video on Indian kings from 700 ad onwards

  • @DarkFilmDirector
    @DarkFilmDirector ปีที่แล้ว +1

    9:00 Imagine how different British history would be had the Levelers succeeded in the end. They essentially espoused the same beliefs and goals of the founding fathers in what became the USA. A British democratic republican revolution before the one in America and France. How drastically this would have affected the balance of power in Europe.

  • @claudiapalermo9793
    @claudiapalermo9793 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Alexandre Dumas for bringing me Here

  • @dchegu
    @dchegu ปีที่แล้ว +1

    U promised me mountains but gave me molehill

  • @MrGksarathy
    @MrGksarathy ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have to ask, what is the amazing intro music you're using for this series?

    • @raptormaster666
      @raptormaster666 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Howard Harper-Barnes - Life in Pieces

    • @MrGksarathy
      @MrGksarathy ปีที่แล้ว

      @@raptormaster666 Thank you.

    • @raptormaster666
      @raptormaster666 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrGksarathy No problem, I was asking the same thing about a month ago for the same reason. :)

  • @herobrinesblog
    @herobrinesblog ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anyone else notice they use civ 5 war songs?

  • @charlesdeleo4608
    @charlesdeleo4608 ปีที่แล้ว

    “Every man by nature is a king, priest, and prophet in his own natural circumference.” - Richard Overton, 1646

  • @kkupsky6321
    @kkupsky6321 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great show. What’s an English? I love fantasy. You guys are creative.

  • @glory2christcmj702
    @glory2christcmj702 ปีที่แล้ว

    Charles I seemed like quite a shrewd fellow

  • @Drifting487
    @Drifting487 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I find it annoying that in eu4. Great powers at this point have armies over 100k approaching 200k and they just stand around even though armies are raised not just there in existence.

  • @yasintamer1547
    @yasintamer1547 ปีที่แล้ว

    It will be a different request but are you planning to war spain i.e. carlist wars and full fledged reconquista? cheers

  • @michaelprobert4014
    @michaelprobert4014 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dundee is a bit out.😉

  • @mango2005
    @mango2005 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent. Just one niggle. In Britain, the s is pronounced in Marquess.

  • @dclark142002
    @dclark142002 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why did Charles use Oxford as his base?

    • @KingsandGenerals
      @KingsandGenerals  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was the most royalist city closest to London

  • @OliverCovfefe
    @OliverCovfefe ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bada boom

  • @LazyLifeIFreak
    @LazyLifeIFreak ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Cromwell: The parliament is in the hands of madmen!

  • @burgdush1
    @burgdush1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    13:30, 'Which the Scotch', a drink found something troublesome?, seriously....

  • @shehansenanayaka-n1o
    @shehansenanayaka-n1o ปีที่แล้ว

    THIS SERIS IS BRILLIANT. CROMWELL THE GREATEST ENEMY OF CHARLES I OF ENGLAND. I LOVE AND ADMIRE THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

  • @hernemithras
    @hernemithras ปีที่แล้ว

    The Battle of Great Torrington and the Royalist Loss of the South West might be a good campaign and Battle.

  • @chrisgibson5267
    @chrisgibson5267 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Scottish invasions would have followed the route of the old Roman coast road, and thence the A49 Trunk Road.
    Preston, Wigan and Winwick ( Winnick, the second W is silent) are all on this road, which runs from Herefordshire to Bamber Bridge, site of the infamous Battle of Bamber Bridge in 1943.
    Preston was known as Proud Preston. Pious was sometimes added, as was Papist due to the large number of Catholic recusants there and in Lancashire in general.
    There are two monuments of note. Warrington, which was then in Lancashire, has a statue of Cromwell.
    There were objections from the local Irish community*, which were duly noted and ignored. Queen Victoria was kept away from the statue when she visited the town.
    The second is from the Anglo-Scottish War of 1651 on the A49 at Swinley, and it commemorates the death in battle of Sir Thomas Tyldsley. Sir Thomas was a Catholic supporter of the Stuart's, and was known as finest knight in England.
    * Lancashire has a large population of people of Irish descent.

  • @cataphracts123
    @cataphracts123 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would you ever let Devin use the tech and graphics to narrate one of his short strategy game campaigns?

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fantastic video! I can't wait for the next installment. England is a strange nation; even after throwing off the yoke of Monarchy they kept bringing it back. As an American it seems strange to see a people that so desired to be rules as subjects.

  • @ImperatorHispania
    @ImperatorHispania ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Cromwell was the greatest tyrant in the history of England along with Henry VIII.

    • @rtk3543
      @rtk3543 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Based on what exactly?

    • @deadsheep404
      @deadsheep404 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Cromwell was the best thing to happen to the UK followed closely by Guy Fawkes. Unfortunately neither were successful long term.

    • @paulwilliams7103
      @paulwilliams7103 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      That isn’t true at all. In fact the type of government he wanted to establish came to fruition in the United States. He worked hard to establish a representative government but those elected in Parliament kept undermining him and other political factions who wanted the tyrannical Stuart’s back on the throne and did whatever they could to undermine him to make it happen. Cromwell knew that. Almost immediately after his death and the monarchy was reestablished, the country greatly suffered and Christians were slaughtered and many either fled to America or were forced there as exiles or slaves in the southern colonies.

    • @akapbhan
      @akapbhan ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@paulwilliams7103 More like the Government he wanted to establish came to fruition in Gran Colombia. Though Cromwell is fondly looked back by Americans Cromwell was a tyrant

    • @thematthew761
      @thematthew761 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@deadsheep404 Why?

  • @ThePalaeontologist
    @ThePalaeontologist ปีที่แล้ว

    "When on October 18th", no, what you mean to say is, "When on the 18th October".

  • @theultimateartist4153
    @theultimateartist4153 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fun fact because of this war the Jamaican accent was formed

  • @josephschmidtaftondeutschl8493
    @josephschmidtaftondeutschl8493 ปีที่แล้ว

    i watch the wolfwalkers is a great movies the Cromwell become as villian they just hunt down and get rid of wolfs and some war didnt happened. Cromwell the lord protecters from wolfwalkers is from Other universe and Cromwell from normal universe he died due for execute they both diff from universe

  • @MayorMcC666
    @MayorMcC666 ปีที่แล้ว

    damn I didn't know the guy all the science youtubers talk about related to glass bulbs shattering was subtweeted by charles I

  • @jakelabelle7202
    @jakelabelle7202 ปีที่แล้ว

    please can someone tell me the song/music that plays in the introduction

    • @raptormaster666
      @raptormaster666 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Howard Harper-Barnes - Life in Pieces

    • @jakelabelle7202
      @jakelabelle7202 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@raptormaster666 much appreciated

  • @EdMcF1
    @EdMcF1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wetherby is around 35 miles too far east.

  • @barryirlandi4217
    @barryirlandi4217 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow.. I wonder how anyone survives a civil war.. They just seem so nasty

  • @jackieking1522
    @jackieking1522 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting..... not taught at all well in catholic schools in the 50's....

  • @minoru-kk
    @minoru-kk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cannot wait to watch the rise and fall of Commonwealth in K&G's brilliant video, after the civil war

  • @Raadpensionaris
    @Raadpensionaris ปีที่แล้ว

    The map of the Low Countries is so fucked. I don't know where to begin lol