Thomas Pride Biography and Timeline

Battle of Naseby

Commands a Parliamentary regiment in a victory over the Royalists

Role range: 1642-1649

Battle of Preston

The Scots are driven off by a charge of pikemen under Colonels Thomas Pride and Richard Dean

Role range: 1642-1649

Constitution of England

Expels 140 Presbyterians & Royalists from Parliament, creating the rump Parliament

Parliament

Expels 140 Presbyterians & Royalists from Parliament, creating the rump Parliament

Prides Purge

Expels 140 Presbyterians & Royalists from Parliament, creating the rump Parliament. Divisions emerge culminating in Prides Purge when, under the orders of Oliver Cromwell's son-in-law Henry Ireton, Colonel Pride physically bars about half of the members of Parliament from taking their seats

Pride's Purge

Pride excludes MPs considered hostile to the army and clears the way for the king's trial.

Role range: 1642-1651

Arrest of Members of Parliament

Pride's troops arrest dozens of MPs during the purge that leaves the reduced House later known as the Rump Parliament.

Role range: 1642-1649

Pride's Purge

Pride stations soldiers outside the Commons and begins excluding members considered likely to continue negotiations with Charles I.

Role range: 1642-1649

Signing of Death Warrant

Pride signs the death warrant for Charles I after the High Court reaches its judgment against the King.

Role range: 1642-1649

High Court of Justice

Pride is appointed among the commissioners of the High Court established to try Charles I for high treason.

Role range: 1642-1649

Death Warrant

Signs Charles Is death warrant

Role range: 1642-1649

Battle of Dunbar

Commands a brigade of Foot

Role range: 1642-1649

Battle of Worcester

Commands a Parliamentary regiment in a victory over the Royalists

Role range: 1642-1649

Battle of Worcester

Pride takes part in Cromwell's Parliamentarian victory at Worcester after previously commanding a brigade during the Scottish campaign.

Role range: 1642-1651