Why Did the Civil War Begin?
Why Did the Civil War Begin?
On 22 August 1642, King Charles I raised his battle standard and declared a civil war against his enemies in Parliament.
A civil war is a conflict fought between inhabitants of the same country. In this case the two sides that fought against each other in England were the King 's side known as the Royalists and Parliament 's side known as the Parliamentarians. The main reasons for going to war were part of three or possibly four topics; they were Money, Religion, Power, and...Personality. I will study these factors in my following essay.
An estimated 250,000 people would be killed in the war that followed.
How had a situation come about where Englishmen were prepared to kill each other, their friends and even members of their own families?
A man once quoted:
“You would think it strange if I should tell you there was a time in England when brothers killed brothers, cousins cousins and friends their friends.”
Sir John Oglander, 1660
In my essay I will try and discover why a civil war that led to Charles 1 public dath began. I will complete this by looking at the long and short term causes and by trying to uncover which one is most important.
However there is not a simple answer there are several reasons and causes these can be split into Long term and short term and their definitions are below.
Long Term: Long-term causes are reasons that have developed over a period of time. It can be helpful to think of them as factors that bring about the right conditions for an event to happen.
I will first look at the Long term causes these include: * Charles’s belief in the divine right of kings * Charles’s money problems * the rise of Parliament * religious issues * Charles’s attempts to rule without Parliament.
The divine right of kings is my first long term cause, why the civil war began?
Charles believe in the Divine Right of Kings was a long term cause because ; when Queen Elizabeth 1 died childless in
On 22 August 1642, King Charles I raised his battle standard and declared a civil war against his enemies in Parliament.
A civil war is a conflict fought between inhabitants of the same country. In this case the two sides that fought against each other in England were the King 's side known as the Royalists and Parliament 's side known as the Parliamentarians. The main reasons for going to war were part of three or possibly four topics; they were Money, Religion, Power, and...Personality. I will study these factors in my following essay.
An estimated 250,000 people would be killed in the war that followed.
How had a situation come about where Englishmen were prepared to kill each other, their friends and even members of their own families?
A man once quoted:
“You would think it strange if I should tell you there was a time in England when brothers killed brothers, cousins cousins and friends their friends.”
Sir John Oglander, 1660
In my essay I will try and discover why a civil war that led to Charles 1 public dath began. I will complete this by looking at the long and short term causes and by trying to uncover which one is most important.
However there is not a simple answer there are several reasons and causes these can be split into Long term and short term and their definitions are below.
Long Term: Long-term causes are reasons that have developed over a period of time. It can be helpful to think of them as factors that bring about the right conditions for an event to happen.
I will first look at the Long term causes these include: * Charles’s belief in the divine right of kings * Charles’s money problems * the rise of Parliament * religious issues * Charles’s attempts to rule without Parliament.
The divine right of kings is my first long term cause, why the civil war began?
Charles believe in the Divine Right of Kings was a long term cause because ; when Queen Elizabeth 1 died childless in