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English Civil War - Learning Zone (Part 2)

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Part two of the Learning Zone's program on the English Civil War. This second part covers the events of the Civil War and questions whether Charles I was a traitor or a martyr.

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  • Yes but I also know that the Scots were mondo pissed at Charles because he tried to control their religion.

  • I disagree, yes he was timid, but a man named William Pyrnne had spoken against him, and his ears were cut of.

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  • Stick your cock in this Musket, and you can be as cool as Olivier Cromwell..!!

  • @freedomaintfries cromwell saved england from the king

  • Says the war didn't end until 1651.

  • Fuck Cromwell, look at the state of the country now, I would fight for the king.

  • first things first it's not cromwall it is cromwell but otherwise it is a gd video

    thank u

  • @brnleague99 Its wasn't just Scots' Presbyterianism, but the whole of British Protestanism that felt threatened. The actions of both James and Charles destroyed Elizabeth's carefully balanced middle way.  Marrying a French Catholic queen, being the grandson of Mary Queen of Scots, Laud's actions and ignoring a Parliament that was increasingly becoming influenced by the Puritans was going to piss off people from Land's End to John O'Groats

  • But would Britain be a democracy today if Charles' notion of royal absolutism had been allowed to prevail? I doubt it. The royals had to accept a more limited defined powe to return. Their return in turn checked the religious absolutism of the Puritans. So in the end, between these two extremes were secured British liberty. Hope I don't sound too much like an old Whig.

  • sic semper tyrannis.  Enough said.

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